Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the capability of writers or speakers to inform, most likely to persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations. As a subject of formal study and a productive civic practice, rhetoric has played a central role in the European tradition.<span>Its best known definition comes from </span>Aristotle, who considers it a counterpart of both logic and politics, and calls it "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion<span>."</span>
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o, once compound words are closed or hyphenated they are counted as one word. If the compound word is open, e.g., "post office," it is counted as two words.
Answer: Describing Crusoe's self-examination develops the idea of battling one's flaws.
Explanation: In this passage, Defoe manages to reveal bits of Crusoe's history while introducing, at the same time, the character's own sense of moral development. We can infer from the words "what would become of me" that the character feels in a more advance moral place, where he can recognize having learned <em>thankfulness</em> and having acquired the capacity for <em>remorse</em>.