The former is included because it teaches the use of the rhetorical syllogism or enthymeme, and rhetorical induction or example; the latter because it also teaches the use of example, not to persuasive ends, but for imitation.
It's completely in character, garish and outlandish, even a bit of a joke, but in the end persuasive.
That seemed persuasive: by the end of the evening, there had been a swing in the votes, with sixty-two per cent against the resolution.
The performance proved persuasive in the end, with fine work from the chorus and orchestra under Mr. Mariotti's increasingly sure hand, and Mr. Lee and Mr. Ketelsen will undoubtedly continue to grow into their roles throughout the run.
The Stranger still finds these puzzles persuasive at the end of the dialogue, because he says: "If a statement is of nothing, it would not be a statement at all, for we have shown that a statement that is a statement (logos) of nothing cannot be a statement" (Sophist 263c).
He was so forceful and persuasive that I ended up writing an investigative article for the newspaper -- with tips provided, and photographs shot, by him.
Wouldn't the testimonials in print ads for Skechers Shape-ups sneakers, billed as "comments from actual Shape-ups wearers," be more persuasive if they ended with more identification than just "Lisa, Missouri," "Jazzy, Wisconsin" or "Frank, Arizona"?
Over the last 25 years, Makiya, a secular Shiite, born of a British mother and educated in the United States, had become the foremost chronicler of Saddam Hussein's crimes and the most persuasive voice for ending his reign.
Nonetheless, whether or not one takes pleasure from it, Parks succeeds in making a persuasive case: "In the end the game does need these wild boys to make it work.
It does not, however, select its own goal or in any way dictate the end of persuasive speech: rather, the end of rhetoric is given by the nature of the craft itself.
