Monthly Archives: April 2009

Percy Commentary #6

Maria Shreve Dr. DeVries English 5870 03 March 2009               After reading Percy’s “The Message in the Bottle: Howe Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What the One Has to Do with the Other,” I am struck…

5001 Midterm A2 and B1

  Download the original attachment Essay A2—Explain the classical and Enlightenment definitions of rhetoric and propose a contemporary definition.  Account for differences between the three.   Classical Rhetoric        Classical rhetoricians are quite concerned with the idea of truth although there…

Midterm B-2

Set B-1: Looking at Western, Indian and Chinese classical theories, we can see both similarities and differences. Is it possible to really understand the rhetorical tradition of another culture? Explain why or why not, based on the arguments of Ezzaher…