Blog 6

Boethius says that all rhetoric is either judicial, demonstrative and deliberative and the parts of rhetoric are invention, arrangement, style, memory and delivery.  He says that the tool used is oration and the function of the oration is to teach and to move.  I think that this has changed significantly since Boethius's time.  First of all, the tool used can be several things not just oration.  While speeches are definitely rhetorical, now I feel rhetoric has a bigger place in writing and advertising and also in art.  That means that the parts of rhetoric are different as well, although really the only thing that modern day rhetoric doesn't involve is memory.  Also, I wonder if the categories of judicial, demonstrative and deliberative still stand today.  I'm still confused about ancient rhetoric and whether it has changed or not and what's considered rhetoric.  I know that there are many different definitions of rhetoric but does rhetoric today still exist?  I feel like we spend a lot of time talking about how basically all things are rhetorical and at the same time saying that rhetoric doesn't exist like it did in ancient times anymore.