Unlike a well-defined discipline like physics, even professional scholars in rhetoric disagree on how to define it. There have been many definitions throughout history.
Most people have many ideas about what rhetoric is.
Style vs. substance. Hot air, bombast Argumentation Speech making At the most basic level, rhetoric is equivalent to persuasion. Background Corax lived in a Greek colony on the island of Sicily. The tyrants who had ruled the country were overthrown, and a free government replaced them. Much like similar problems in Eastern Europe after the overthrow of communist regimes, people who had owned land before the tyrants wanted their property back from those who had taken it during the tyrants reign.