Inrhetoric, any factors that restrict thepersuasivestrategies or opportunities available to a speaker or writer are calledconstraints. In "The Rhetorical Situation," Lloyd Bitzer notes that rhetorical constraints are "made up of persons, events, objects, and relations which are part of the [rhetorica...
St. Augustine on the rhetoric of the sermon: "After all, the universal task ofeloquence, in whichever of these threestyles, is to speak in a way that is geared topersuasion. The aim, what you intend, is to persuade by speaking. In any of these three styles, indeed, the eloquent man ...