Socrates' preposition

Explain the Socratic method in your own words, giving examples from The Defense to support your claims.

Socrates uses rhetorical questions, authoritative examples, and facts to back up his arguments. He also humbles himself to the audiences level, and tries to stay there in order to bring them up to his level. One of his rhetorical questions is something like, And who are these accusers? He also uses the god Apollo in his argument, which is both an authoritative example, and a figure that everyone can relate to, putting his argument on their level. All of this he does in a neatly and carefully wrapped present of words for his audience to understand and begin to think a different way. he also is very efficient, and has almost nothing that could be taken out of his questioning and representing that his argument could use without.