Which of the following professions relies most on rhetoric and persuasion? a. astronaut b. librarian c. agent d. educator

Agent.

Explanation: First of all we have to bare in mind the meaning of the words Rhetoric and Persuation. Rhetoric is the art of exposing, using the language to speak about a fact. Persuation is the ability to convince someone about something.

As regards with the question itself, there are different types of agents (travel agent, insurance agent, estate agent, etc) but in all of the cases the agent is a person who needs the rhetoric and the persiation to convince the costumer of buying or purchasing the product he/she is selling.

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.