DIDACTICS AND PERSUASION: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF COMENIUS' MAGNA DIDACTICS

Abstract

This work falls within the field of rhetorical studies, which aim to discuss the pedagogical function of rhetoric as an efficient instrument of persuasion and a strong ally for the teacher, in his pedagogical action, as long as it is understood outside the Platonic etiquette. In our research, we took one of his tools: figures and, more specifically, metaphor and analogy, to understand how a speech, that of Comenius, which denies the use of rhetoric, is full of its strategies.