[ US /ˈɹɛtɝɪk/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɛtəɹˌɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
    the grandiosity of his prose
    an excessive ornateness of language
  2. using language effectively to please or persuade
  3. study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
  4. loud and confused and empty talk
    mere rhetoric
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How To Use rhetoric In A Sentence

  • But it is worthwhile teasing this apart a little, unbinding the different aspects of rhetorics lumped together in one component and separating out the semiotic layering (i.e. the use of metaphor and metonym) stuck in with the second. On the Sublime
  • Generally speaking, I tend not to get too bent out of shape by occasional rhetorical howlers.
  • I wasn't sure if this was a rhetorical question or not.
  • It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors.
  • Sharpening his rhetoric, what they call contrasting himself with Senator Clinton before she started fighting back. CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2007
  • Rivlin said that anti-immigration rhetoric has galvanized immigrant voters, bringing them to the streets in protest and to the polling booth.
  • Classic poetry and rhetoric give kids a language, at once subtle and copious, in which to articulate their own thoughts, perceptions, and inchoate feelings.
  • Hamlet as a play is similarly preoccupied by slander, misrepresentation and selves fabricated from the nothings of rhetorical tropes.
  • Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing. Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
  • This isn't a rhetorical question but one that, again, would help show whether they're applying this rule fairly or arbitrarily.
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