Rhetorical Form
In my cinema studies reading this week I came across the term rhetorical form. in regards to documentaries rhetorical form is used to persuade the audience to have the same opinion and possibly act upon it usually through presenting the facts in a partisan way. The text book Bordwall and Thomson mentions that this type of form is not only in documentaries, the media, formal speech but in our personal conversations. When speaking, a lot of the time we usually have an objective. Thats what makes our conversations intriguing. If you think about it, if we didn’t take some sort of side or adopt a certain tone, or didn’t have an objective in our speech, we would either sit in silence or be saying something for the sake of saying something.
