Rhetoric is used to persuade people to buy things, do things, or make some kind of a change. Why is it sometimes successful and sometimes not? What makes rhetoric convincing? Why does it fall short at times? Write a paragraph explaining your ideas(no links please)

Read this excerpt from the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne and complete the sentence that follows. she had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt.