Rhetoric and Power

The Tenth Rule of Rhetoric: You Can't be Good Unless you Know Bad
The Dark Side of Rhetoric

1. The fine art of manipulation in 41 sec.
2. Read "Machiavellian Rhetoric" (p. 306 - 317).
3. Write about ONE of the following:
   1. Which of the 48 Rules do you use and when/why?
   2. Flesh out the Rules of Weakness on 317
   3. Literature and TV (especially HBO) are full of Machiavellians. Today we might call them psychopaths, not so much Jeffrey Dahmer as Nurse Jackie (or Villanell of Killing Eve?). If you know or have met a Machiavell, what were they like and what was being with them like for you?
   4. What do you make of cold reading? Are there any circumstances in which you might want to do it or some variation of it?

Rubric: Graded out of 100. Worth 5% of final grade. Make sure you have an in introductory and concluding paragraph (-10% for either missing). Two points subtracted for each grammar, punctuation, diction error.