The Rhetorical Situation

I have to say that that was the most over the top article I have read in a whole. There were not any real specifications to this so I am just going to tell you readers what I got out of all that mess. Even though it took him forever to say it, this whole paper is about how rhetorical discourse, which I understand to be an argument of some kind, is always found or interpreted from a situation. I just do not know why he had to add so much extra to this paper. I understand trying to flex one’s personal vocabulary, but this guy took it to a whole another level. He just kept firing off higher level word after word, not giving the reader a chance to catch their breath. Usually after seeing a word that I do not know or completely understand, I would whip out the old dictionary, but this guy made it impossible. I would have been working on just the reading all night if I did that so I just had to force myself to trudge through his barrage of unnecessary words. I figured most of them out through context clues so I do not feel like a complete idiot.

If you ever need a guy to drive a point home for pages on pages, this is your guy. Throughout the whole paper he kept saying that rhetoric is situational and gave some real great examples such as the Gettysburg Address and the assassination of Kennedy, but after a while it got annoying. He would write a whole page of words explaining this and expounding on that, but I would not know what was going on till the last couple of sentences when he would simplify things. He also went on to describe the components that go along with rhetorical situation such as, exigence, which is any obstacle I believe, audience, and constraints.  Yet again when explaining these, he went overboard with the excess words and drawing analogies to previous analogies which did not make sense in the first place. I mean how is it possible to affect the audience with your speech if from the very start they do not understand you and have to strain to see your point. Overall this was way too long and I would not wish that reading on anyone, even an actual rhetorician. That word is so funny to me but I do not know why lol.