Gavin Alexander says rhetoric is ‘all about persuading a particular audience by appeals to reason and emotion.’In what ways could any TWO texts on the module be said to make such persuasive appeals?Explain

Use of rhetoric in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Hamlet

Question:

Gavin Alexander says rhetoric is ‘all about persuading a particular audience by appeals to reason and emotion’ (Gavin Alexander, 2010, in Michael Hattaway (ed), A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, vol. 1, Wiley and Blackwell, Oxford, p. 38).

In what ways could any TWO texts on the module be said to make such persuasive appeals?

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