Thinking and Acting Rhetorically

I think rhetoric is when you use your language to try to inform or persuade an audience to conform to your way of thinking. Like if you want to explain your stance on LGBT+ rights, you would come up with a list of reasons to explain yourself and try to order everything in a way that makes sense and helps to push the reader in a certain direction of thinking. You take your topics and your audience into consideration and try to form cohesive thoughts to convey your meaning in a concise and clear manner in order to change their mind and channel the audience into your way of thinking. If I wanted to convince someone that same-sex marriage was a inherent right, I would come up with a list of reasons why, such as they are people, it wont affect you personally, it's really not your business unless you want to marry someone of the same sex, what is wrong with you that you would hate a group of people so much that you don't want them so have the same rights as every other person. And then you would expand on those topics, making sure to thoroughly explain each point you have, in order to convince your audience of homophobes that gay people actually are people who have rights! Omg who knew!