Princeton's WordNet(2.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition: post, station(noun) the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand. a soldier manned the entrance post; a sentry station. military post, post(noun) military installation at which a body of troops is stationed.
Rhetorical criticism is the analysis of a broad range of items related to using language to have an impact on an audience. This is often but not always applied to writing, where the author intends to have a certain effect on readers.
1 The Speech Teacher, 16, March 1967).  [ 2 R]hetorical criticism is a mode of analysis that focuses on the text itself. 3  In that respect it is like the practical criticism that the New Critics and the Chicago School indulge in.