Advantages and Disadvantages of Using a Knowledge of Rhetoric in the Critical Discussion of Literary Texts.

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Almost everyone can write a book, but not everyone knows how to write a good book; a book which can make you feel every single word, which can make you believe and imagine its created world. Thousands of books were so popular, they made many simple people millionaires and unimaginatively famous. Even books written hundreds of years ago are still known today and we discuss about them at schools and universities. It is unbelievable how an average person can create such a masterpiece and how it can make a difference in nowadays. This century is an era of technology and industry development, therefore people have tried a lot of different experiments and we are hardly impressed by a regular performance and work. In these days people try to amaze us in any kind of way, but talking about literary texts the most powerful way to own a reader is knowledge of rhetoric – if you know how to persuade, you will definitely succeed. As Edward P.J. Corbett has noted, rhetorical analysis "is more interested in a literary work for what it does than for what it is." By performing rhetoric in literary texts the only disadvantage can be the lack, or too much of persuading. For example if the writer lacks persuasion in his text, readers will not feel his story, they will be not impressed and it will be hard and not interesting to read. So it is really important to master art of rhetoric with every character of your story. Even if you are describing environment it should be very easy to imagine the picture of the surroundings. Readers have to visualize the scent, view, feelings, flavor and every detail that helps to personalize characters. To be the best and noticeable writer you should give everything to your masterpiece to make it perfect. For instance a short story written by Flannery O'Connor gives us the finest example of how we should describe even a smallest detail with written

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