Once one has the chance to peruse the pages of Walter Jost's _Rhetorical Investigations_(Virginia: 2004)things never are the same. Imagine one day you wake up and discover that the three types of classical rhetoric-deliberative, forensic, and epideictic-do not exhaust the types of rhetorical encounters one might have on that day! Could things be going any better? You've just visited a new continent, one you've lived on for years without knowing it.

But in an effort to tame some of this extravagant energy, let us look closely at the passage: "Chaim Perelman has observed that 'it is indeed in the course of daily conversation that the opportunity to engage in argumentation most commonly presents itself.' His point aligns with that of Cicero, who elevated leisured conversation on abstract issues to nothing less than a fourth genre of rhetoric, on a level with and often borrowing the topoi and strategies of deliberative, epideictic, and forensic." (p. 160)

The force of this observation is enough to shake up our manner of speaking. What tropes are lurking over there? Does anyone have a flashlight? My batteries may not be up to this.
MGGreer