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Writing thousands of years ago, Aristotle termed communication rhetoric and defined three primary aspects of all communications: the speaker, the subject, and the person being addressed.

Classical persuasive techniques can help speakers tell listeners what they don’t want to hear. In Rhetoric (4th century BCE), Aristotle identified the three modes of persuasion, or persuasive appeals, ...