ABSTRACT
The expansive field of rhetoric, with academic departments and an impressive list of journals dedicated to the numerous discourses that animate the field, is too broad for our purposes. Readers are instead referred to Wendy Olmsted (2006) for the intellectual framework, history, and conceptual foundations of rhetoric. Before the author analyzes some of the rhetorical strategies in the previous narrative, the author would like to situate the narrative in the larger historical context described by Kyerematen. Akora Bompe, a hunter from Asaaman, is said to have discovered the only lake in the Asante Region. In order to celebrate the success of the king, the singers swiftly access celestial bodies and declare that there may be an uncountable number of stars in the sky, but it is only the moon that is king. The references to the stars and moon reinforce the notion that there are several chiefs in the Kingdom, but there is only one king.
