Rhetoric, language and reasoning : the equivalence between figures of speech and types of argument

The aim is to consider the techniques of persuasion and the relationship with figurative language, with the following essential question as an underlying thread: is the unity of rhetoric possible? Traditionally, the rhetoric of conflict has been opposed to the rhetoric of figures, persuasion to conviction, literary rhetoric to legal logic - in short, rhetoric to argumentation. Let's take a look at how these two fields work, through the nature of language, the functioning of arguments, and the role of places and figures, in both literary and everyday language.