How To Use Rhetorical In A Sentence

They contain a good deal of material of a rhetorical, formulaic, or supernatural character designed to bolster the Chosen One's claims to prophethood in the face of sceptical or prejudiced critics.
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.
Hamlet as a play is similarly preoccupied by slander, misrepresentation and selves fabricated from the nothings of rhetorical tropes.
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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Sironi's peer in sculpture was Arturo Martini, who also used archaic forms to enliven the classical tradition in search of a non-rhetorical Fascist style.
The prose is strewn with biblical and poetic tags and pang full of rhetorical devices.
Thus far, the data show a recurring rhetorical pattern in which vulnerable groups were identified as antithetical to the core values attributed by the host to himself, his audience, and the nation. Kety Esquivel: UCLA Study, Hate Speech on Commercial Talk Radio, Affirms NCLR's We Can Stop the Hate Campaign
He frequently used such commonplace devices as rhetorical questions and other characteristic elements of diatribes.
Manichaean symbols and apocalyptic scenarios are bandied about with future consequences and rhetorical restraint thrown to the winds.
I am not of Paracelsus's mind, that boldly delivers a receipt to make a man without conjunction; yet cannot but wonder at the multitude of heads that do deny traduction, having no other arguments to confirm their belief than that rhetorical sentence and antimetathesis [I. 51] of Augustine, "creando infunditur, infundendo creatur. Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
Find two of the most effective rhetorical questions in this essay and discuss their significance. Exploring language (6th edn)
Why does Billmon keep asking these rhetorical questions?
Each of the elements he names demands a communicative, rhetorically performed reciprocity that today's electronic media make almost unthinkable.
His aphoristic, rhetorical style, lends itself to statements that sound arresting but often mean very little.
Again, the question is rhetorical. Times, Sunday Times
When you ask (rhetorically) whether an ignorant person can have a deep insight, I think you betray your attitude.
The next step is a focus on specific rhetorical devices.
The proper response to the globalization of greed and gluttony, and to the rise of violence in this world, is solidarity, which must manifest itself in practical actions, not just rhetorical flourishes.
Full of rhetorical flourishes that bob along the way, neither standing apart from the orchestral textures nor biting into them. Times, Sunday Times
As a skilled political counsellor More had to display his rhetorical skills in justifying often mutually incompatible or contradictory statements and beliefs in the service of the state.
So the primary options for its meaning here are either adverbial intensity or some kind of conjunctive use, since it is unlikely introducing the rare rhetorical question. Solomon’s Song of Love
Republican Congressional leaders have launched a rhetorical assault against the Clinton proposal this week.
In light of the examples of occult texts offered above, occult discourse is the result of a rhetorical antinomy between a belief and an action.
The argument has potency, but its delivery is marred by unwelcome rhetorical flourishes and a confused narrative structure. Times, Sunday Times
Again, the question is rhetorical. Times, Sunday Times
Like the Caroline poets of his epoch, Brome's use of rhetorical hyperbolism is also linked to the eye of the one who beholds.
Do these kids know how lucky they are?" Jackson asked rhetorically.
If you tear off the rhetorical top-dressing from his article, you will find there is very little solid content.
His fervent soap-box oratory, rhetorical literary style, and experience as secretary of the Timber Workers Union brought a growing reputation.
Assign your staff to build the sort of book on Russert's techniques, rhetorical gambits, and political obsessions that you'd want going into a debate with an opposing candidate.
Giuliani’s sole reliance on military force and attacking people rhetorically is in fact a defensive posture that won’t work. Thinking in Real Time
Imperialism is a term often used as a rhetorical flourish and definitions vary especially in academic discourse and social discussion tracts.
The professor rhetorically asked, "Does the redemptive-historical school regard his appeal to be 'atomistic' and moralistic?"
The decision of Government to send reinforcements to Ireland was mentioned as a prelude to the information from Vienna of the birth of a son to the Princess Nikolas: and then; having conjoined the two entirely heterogeneous pieces of intelligence, the composer adroitly interfused them by a careless transposition of the prelude and the burden that enabled him to play ad libitum on regrets and rejoicings; by which device the lord of Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
He grimaced slightly, obviously expecting no answer to his rhetorical question.
Just goes directly to an obviously preprepared rhetorical statement. When Joe Met Sarah
A favourite rhetorical device is the appearance of emphatically real-world items in unexpected places. The Times Literary Supplement
For reformers all along the rhetorical spectrum, red-light districts were the strongholds of organized vice.
Felled by the ward of his intransigence, levelled and laid flat, sword brandished in denial – sword wafting words uttered emphatically in a trial of words by words, falling for the trap of his own rhetorical thirst, falling into the gap between those who run first and those who carp and cry in the pack – an empty husk cracked and ablated, an old fool trashed. Archive 2007-04-01
Yet these rhetorical flourishes are sparingly deployed. The Times Literary Supplement
The writer showed great rhetorical skill.
Questions remain, rhetorical and otherwise. Times, Sunday Times
accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested
In Miguel Street, irony goes far beyond a rhetorical device. Instead, it's the narrative strategy of the whole novel.
This paper attempts to study the features and rhetorical mechanism of the enthymeme, which was, is and will be an important subject in rhetoric.
And why the deafen silence of the normally vocal Republicans remain mute, with no loud attacks on everything the Media Imperial President has done, with no rhetorical shouting points repeated ad nauseum, just taking the high road with a few reasonable discussions over actual policy points? Matthew Yglesias » The Think Tank Arm of the Military-Industrial Complex
Yet no one, he concludes, has offered demonstrable proof that Paul made conscious use of schooled rhetorical training.
With weapons and instruments of scholarship interspersed throughout its cabinets, this etymological play — transparent to Federico's colleagues52 — suggests that the entire Urbino studiolo may be interpreted simultaneously as an armariolum and armamentum, a witty spin on the traditional rhetorical trope of the vita activa and vita contemplativa. 53 48 Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
Metaphor is not only a rhetorical device but also a cognitive means.
(Let me again remind our readers that the rhetorical figure I so much enjoy using is called preterition, as in: "If I were as mean as my opponent, I would remind him that his mother sold not only homemade cakes to her male customers, but, being a gentleman, I will pass over that fact.") OUPblog
I mean, if the GOP wants to try to use pure rhetorical radar chaff to stymy Democratic bills, the Dems had better learn to respond by simply flinging it back at them. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | House GOPers Make Bid To Derail FISA Legislation
Because of Damian's rhetorical skills and his knowledge of Canon Law, the Pope used him as his legate on several occasions.
So many of the classical rhetorical figures are just forms of repetition. Times, Sunday Times
Like a lot of lefties spooked by recent unwholesome political successes by the American right, I'm angry and feeling rhetorically confrontational these days, but violence is not the way to express it.
The reviews could be descriptive or interactive, polemical or irenical, or, heck, you could write a song about theosis and sing it on youtube or some such thing - reviewer's choice with regard to rhetorical form, length, etc. The Ochlophobist
But the elocutionists, like the rest of the New Rhetorical movement, were doing more than simply borrowing the status of the classical tradition as a foundation for their work.
English uses word order a worthy substitute for affixes instead of a rhetorical device in Latin.
Ask Tessie, for instance, why being an Orthodox Jew is so important to her, and she answers rhetorically: “Why does an Arab wear the shmatte on his head?” Tessie and Pearlie
This is an argument from the field of descriptive linguistics, made for a rhetorical audience of laypeople.
Rhetorical purpose and the writer's intention are key elements in textual endeavour.
The author states with a grand rhetorical flourish: ‘Rome broke the tribalism of Celtic Britain with the iron claw of its uniformity’.
Analysis of the rhetorical strategies shows how prophetic religion in El Salvador was related to the political struggle between the oligarchy and the popular movements as the country descended into civil war.
Assuming that your question is not rhetorical: a tiller is the "stick" you use on a sailboat to control the rudder and steer the boat. Snap Polls Give Debate Win To Obama
Wait, that was a rhetorical question. Times, Sunday Times
Throughout, Tait notes that Witherspoon's sermons were earnest, clear, precise, direct, and unembellished by rhetorical flourishes.
As the legal escamotage of terra nullius denied the existence of Indigenous land tenure, opening up land and resources to European settlers, so cultura nullius is being used to justify government and market policy efforts to overlay our own, often foreign values and visions, on those that are rhetorically effaced and trade-off one cultural body of knowledge, skills, practices and values for another. Culture Matters
Further, Espy speaks about epiphora on pages 174 and 205 as a rhetorical device containing the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
Then he uses a cute rhetorical device to claim that because the station discussed by Watts has a larger trend than the corresponding adjusted grid-cell, the adustments made by GISS and CRU are all tickety-boo. Gavin Schmidt: station data "not used" in climate models « Climate Audit
What is certain is that this rhetorical transformation has come just in the nick of time. Times, Sunday Times
The most noticeable rhetorical development in this sequence is the profound infantilization of Stephen's represented speech and the repeated ascription of shyness, timidity, and silence to Stephen and his soul.
Lane held the poetry untranslatable because abounding in the figure Tajnís, our paronomasia or paragram, of which there are seven distinct varieties,433 not to speak of other rhetorical flourishes. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The self-abasement, you'll have noticed, is rhetorical.
It's filled with unsupported assertions, deceptive qualifiers, logical fallacies and rhetorical tricks so cheap they would make a trial lawyer blush.
There is a typology of rhetorical figures of speech made up of four tropes, they in turn govern the way we operate language: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.
The film has the rhetorical flourishes of the certain, but the confusion of the tentative.
There was no rhetorical flourish at the end, no elevation. Times, Sunday Times
When Jefferson asserted the self-evident nature of truth it was no simple rhetorical flourish.
Brewer fumes at the oil-services giant's tactics, which he calls hypocritical and reminiscent of the rhetorical handsprings of the Forbes.com: News
Lieberman unappealingly then went on to castigate Obama via a demeaning rhetorical pat on the head by asserting that maybe in the future Obama would amount to something. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Moose Bull Party of St. Paul
That is an example of paraleipsis, the rhetorical technique of pointing something out by asserting you will not point it out, often preceded by the phrase “not to mention.” The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
M. ERIC DYSON: I think that, you know, we're engaging in some rhetorical fisticuffs, so to speak, a kind of pugilism of the domestic sphere. CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2008
With its rhetorical poses and elaborate decoration, it was often criticised by later generations, who not only considered it bad, but also morally corrupt.
(as of 1860) an extension of onomatopoeia from pure echoism into a device of rhetoric, namely, "the use of naturally suggestive words, sentences, and forms for rhetorical effect. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
Had she but read Euphues, and forgotten that accursed mill and shieling-hill, it is my thought that her converse would be broidered with as many and as choice pearls of compliment, as that of the most rhetorical lady in the court of Feliciana. The Monastery
I heard the clip from the speech where Bush made the "commander guy" statement, and, although his syntax was as always vey awkward, he clearly said just what she says he did -- that he, Bush, is a guy who supports milliary commanders over others rhetorically presented as inadequate to make decisions about Iraq. Election Central Saturday Roundup
Farewells are commonly used rhetorical tools intended to invite the listener/reader into the moment.
One such description occurs in the opening lines of the poem as Milton joins two rhetorical devices, chiasmus and paradox, to declare his subject.
His dusty and impoverished desert nation, after all, is under attack from all sides, rhetorically and literally.
Lincoln was a skilled orator, brilliant at fashioning American constitutionalism into a rhetorical sword that could save the Union.
Her rhetorical skill, which incorporates fresh analogies, telling vignettes, and powerful declarative sentences, make these essays a pleasure to read.
The honored role here in averting rhetorical disaster was assumed by Donald Rumsfeld, who expressed alarm at this overreach, and by Karen Hughes, who often checked our more blustery outbursts. Present at the Creation
Essentially sophistic, color is also rhetorical, from the point of view of its effects: it is the figure of ornamentation and the ornament of figures.
he liked to make his points with rhetorical questions
As already excerpted above, the question is so rhetorical that the present essay wants to imagine some part of its answer as lying with the phonemic underlay and ligatures of rhetoric's own subvocal figurations. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
But even a rhetorical commitment to sending back the money was influential, not least in the political development of Frederick Douglass, as we shall see.
So what we are getting now is a little less of those rhetorical flourishes, a little more policy in talking about it, and we're getting a lot of what they call compare and contrast with John McCain as they try to frame McCain as totally out of touch with what's going on around those kitchen tables across the country. CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2008
Our diplomats are instructed to avoid unnecessary irritants and purely rhetorical hostility.
The presumption of innocence - widely overused as a rhetorical lifeline for the arrantly guilty - is indeed deeply rooted in Anglo-American common law.
That's not an entirely rhetorical question. Times, Sunday Times
He then proceeds to give me an exhibition of his skills - rhetorical not culinary.
Metaphor, as an important rhetorical device, is frequently adopted in advertising and turns out to be a distinctive feature of advertising language.
Whatever rhetorical device you choose, use it to reinforce your message, not to be cute or to show off.
What’s more, you’re “love it or leave it” hokum is the height of anti-American rhetorical irony. Matthew Yglesias » Good Fences Make Bad Policy
Guillory is obviously ready to understand the positing power of language as simply one more theme by means of which rhetorical reading generates and savors the pathos of non-human agency, but his swerve away from de Man's thematization of the performative may be taken as symptomatic of his desire to purge the theory of elements that resist being returned to cognition, and thence to self and the pedagogue's charisma, and thence to a social world. Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man
"Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new truth to be discovered by a new majority tomorrow?" the future pope asked rhetorically in a 1996 interview.
Homophonic hypertexts are of a function of puns and rhetorically featured with humor, novelty and brevity.
What is certain is that this rhetorical transformation has come just in the nick of time. Times, Sunday Times
The two men strove to write poetry that was stripped of all rhetorical flourishes, bookish or archaic language. Times, Sunday Times
Few were willing to make more than a rhetorical commitment to revolutionary activism.
As with deontic quirks, you can see this in terms of rhetorical transformations. Modality and Hamlet
They all started making films three decades or more ago, when documentaries were considered more than rhetorical bludgeons and instructional tools for the incurious and semi-literate.
Cognitive linguistics assumes that metaphor serves not only as a rhetorical device in literary works but also as a mode of cognition which plays an important role in people's thinking and speaking.
When the religious response moves from condemning a rhetorical tactic to condemning the very act of criticism -- as if the notion of faith falls under some arbitrary plafond of immunity -- fair discourse is effectively blocked. The Fat Line Between Free Speech and Defamation
You want to know what courage is?" he asked rhetorically.
Second, resolving this underspecification requires reasoning about how the presupposition is rhetorically connected to the discourse context.
What rhetorical devices are used to establish and maintain the tone? Exploring language (6th edn)
The tetrameters are made to halt, by placing the strongest syntactical and rhetorical pauses within the short lines, while the strong rhymes chime out the line endings.
Don't worry, these are all rhetorical questions.
As time goes on, it's become clear that he sees his role less as making sure our soldiers vanquish the enemy than making sure he vanquishes the press and the straw men he puts so much rhetorical energy into creating.
It was an enactment of a rhetorical confluence and epistemological crossfertilization between science and art.
With previous Tory leaders, there was at least a rhetorical commitment to a return on the investment through tax cuts.
This paper explores into the theoretical basis of relevance by discussing the usage of four rhetorical devices in collocation variation, namely metaphor, hypallage, zeugma and pun.
And why the deafen silence of the normally vocal Republicans remain mute, with no loud attacks on everything the Media Imperial President has done, with no rhetorical shouting points repeated ad nauseum, just taking the high road with a few reasonable discussions over actual policy points? Matthew Yglesias » The Think Tank Arm of the Military-Industrial Complex
A similar rhetorical device is used to make numbers of weapons appear shocking.
Notably, while students had varying degrees of success with project two, it was clear that the rhetorical analysis they took up in project two helped them to think about their own goals as rhetors in project three.
The administration's attempt to use personal relationships, loans and rhetorical rah-rah to nudge the country toward domestic reform simply has not worked.
Mr Henderson's rhetorical question can be easily answered.
T. R. Johnson, in ‘Writing as Healing and the Rhetorical Tradition,’ offers a provocative, carefully crafted rereading of connections between pre-classical, expressivist, and postmodern conceptions of self and truth.
As such, even the his claim to have renounced the power of alchemy is still locked into its rhetorical presumption of the transmutability of self and world.
There is even a rhetorical figure of speech called apophasis (from the Greek word for "to deny"), in which the speaker stresses an idea by denying or negating it. Joseph Romm: What's in a Name? If it's "No Child Left Behind," You Might be Surprised
That said, Brown gave a good account of himself rhetorically, which is what this debate is primarily about. Queen's Speech Live Blog
"Who can doubt now," he asks rhetorically, "that they were right to denounce the idea of religion based on human sacrifice?"
He grimaced slightly, obviously expecting no answer to his rhetorical question.
But … then … in an ASTONISHING display of rhetorical contortionism … you IMMEDIATELY spin around and righteously and arbitrarily CONDEMN another group of human beings – homosexuals, as you choose to put it … Think Progress » Controversial Florida Politician Unsure If Muslims Should Hold Public Office, Says He’d ‘Prefer’ If Gays Stayed Out
Her apparent acceptance of female inferiority was certainly in part a rhetorical flourish. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Even on radio, their rhetorical style sounds windy, verbose, addicted to polysyllables for their own sake.
Lane held the poetry untranslatable because abounding in the figure Tajnís, our paronomasia or paragram, of which there are seven distinct varieties, [FN#433] not to speak of other rhetorical flourishes. Arabian nights. English
He uses puns, paradoxes, antitheses, parallels, and various rhetorical and literary devices to construct expressions that have meanings beyond the obvious.
The blatancy of its rhetorical devices and the perverseness of its address create discomfort for serious theorists.
In the broad and piebald field of eliptonic bibliophany, I will admit to being a sucker for Beauty, either as a physical artifact -- Manly Palmer Hall's Secret Teachings of All Ages being the epitome here -- or in prose style, which is far less common, though Charles Fort's rhetorical swoop and staccato larrup is a Mauve Decade ironist's delight. Kenneth Hite's Journal
There could never be presented a subject less calculated to be wound up with a rhetorical flourish or to close in pompous affirmation than that which I have so temerariously brought before you this afternoon. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
Paralipsis, also known as praeteritio, preterition, cataphasis, antiphrasis, or parasiopesis, is a rhetorical figure of speech wherein the speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked. Obama says George Bush is "a good guy," "a good man," and "a good person."
The first category sanctifies exhortation, rhetorical plainness, unadorned truth-telling; the second blesses ornate, elaborate eloquence, ludic loquaciousness.
In vivid inventiveness and rhetorical originality he outstrips his master Le Sueur, while showing a firm grasp of contrapuntal and fugal techniques not at all evident in his examination results at the time.
Professor Gurney -- like Braithewaite, a medievalist -- roused himself to a fine rhetorical pitch. DOUBTING THOMAS
Both are brief and although the criticisms of Hegel are clearly intelligible, the statements constituting the “new philosophy” are often rhetorical and aphoristic, which is one of the reasons they are often judged to be unsatisfactory as philosophy. Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
And there's a rhetorical whimsy reminiscent of some of Atkinson's earlier books, a devil-may-care gesturing at the novel's own fictionality, which can leave the characters threatening to float free of our trust in them. Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
These arguments may have been used as a rhetorical device to argue for a perpetuation of a United Nations role.
As well as being badly written, it is too long, too vague, too pompous, too rhetorical, too unrealistic and too boring.
Yet isn't prosopopeia a rhetorical device that is found, as a matter of course, in all poetry?
Public boredom is induced by the incontinent talkativeness of those who occupy the modern rhetorical presidency. Obama’s Apogee in His Rearview Mirror
Being mere insiders, uncritically, may often result in the production of mindless celebratory writing, rhetorical flourishes, and populist clichés - so easy to imbibe and so banal.
She uses the dash in the traditional manner, marking pauses, aposiopesis, and rhetorical transitions, but she also uses it in a non-traditional manner.
So many of the classical rhetorical figures are just forms of repetition. Times, Sunday Times
Foundational to Garver's argument is Aristotle's insight that the rhetorically relevant ethos is the one that is constructed in the rhetor's discourse.
Some of the commenters responding to Ann think the test is a typical bunch of manipulative rhetorical gotchas from people who think they know better.
This, she shows, is a rhetorical device, with no implication that the dead can actually communicate.
The writer showed great rhetorical skill.
As a rhetorical device it was effective, but there were no ideas for how to solve inequality. Times, Sunday Times
This is an argument from the field of descriptive linguistics, made for a rhetorical audience of laypeople.
Dr. Scents, you are an impressively ignorant piece of absence, but I will indulge you just to demonstrate again what a fuckhead you are — you asked what I presume you intended to be a rhetorical question, and followed it with: Similarly (and, I admit, anecdotally), in the school I attended, very few went on to college. Matthew Yglesias » Wonks and Teachers
Viewed from the rhetorical perspective, a discourse is an organic combination of unity, coherence, and foregrounding.
These ten poems are not joined together by a narrative structure, or recurring rhetorical devices intended to produce a unified group of poems.
Rhetorical arguments, often unrealistically extreme, hold sway.
It can not be guaranteed by either rhetoric or philosophy, by rhetorical pragmatism or foundationalist theory.
Don't bother answering it, it's one of those rhetorical posers.
Finally, one of my favorite poetic and rhetorical tricks is the chiasma. John Lundberg: The Poetry Of A Political Speech
The confluence in Browne's prefatory remarks of the topics of antiquarianism and medicine, and the rhetorical antitheses old-new and arising-burial is predictable in antiquarian discourse, where the gifted amateur reigned supreme.
Each candidate has a firm conviction in his or her ability to distract the public from the truth below the surface, like the way Romney tries to explain away Massachusetts health care legislation with an elaborately layered and twisted rhetorical comb-over. Adam Hanft: Donald Trump -- the Perfect Moderator for America's Depressing Comb-over Politics
Had she but read Euphues, and forgotten that accursed mill and shieling-hill, it is my thought that her converse would be broidered with as many and as choice pearls of compliment, as that of the most rhetorical lady in the court of Feliciana. The Monastery
In mentioning the range of the rhetorical lexicon we are not simply talking about lists of tropes and figures.
If you espouse a rhetorical axiology, do the majority of your responses focus on the writer's persona, purpose, and audience?
However, he does not justify this suggestion by giving the criteria for classifying a mode of expression as a rhetorical device.
Politics beckoned, not just because it offered an outlet for his rhetorical brilliance and restless ambition, but also because MPs were immune from prosecution.
It is a rhetorical device. Times, Sunday Times
Otherwise I'm going to have to conclude that this is a sort of disguised overnegation, a rhetorical thunderbolt that blows back semantically the wrong way.
The preface, to be sure, shows a perhaps rhetorically prudent ambivalence towards the use of humour in polemic.
We see this in the recurrence of his favourite rhetorical figures of paradox and hyperbole.
The first category sanctifies exhortation, rhetorical plainness, unadorned truth-telling; the second blesses ornate, elaborate eloquence, ludic loquaciousness.
Every two months I have come to Parliament House Canberra and met with the political architects of this policy, thinking there must be a better way than rhetorical stand-offs in the media.
Questions remain, rhetorical and otherwise. Times, Sunday Times
Power Writing is basically an encyclopedic dictionary of rhetorical tools, from abusio to zeugma: it contains clear definitions of all devices and gives many citations of examples of each. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
Times’s review of critic James Wood’s How Fiction Works and ran across this term, a rhetorical term, I suppose: Biblical polysyndeton, “a series of conjunctions, making for torrential sentences.” 2008 September « Exile on Ninth Street
It is this rhetorical question about fear that haunts the entire film. Times, Sunday Times
Some poets in Tottel's text did employ religious vocabulary as rhetorical window dressing.
It is not a rhetorical question, so please do me and anyone else reading along here the courtesy of a reply.
It is sometimes a bit too easy and didactic to consistently underline such things as radical modulations or harmonic shifts, by means of accentuation, rhetorical pauses, ritardandos, etc.
Freedom feeds fillip and flames of frenzy in a few freak cases, but if it reaches a more feverish frequency, somebody ought to remind those folks to tone down their rhetorical crescendo to a decrescendo level. Pelosi gets emotional about political climate
This is why it has become not just opposition to a point of view, but opposition to an entire rhetorical technique.
His interest in denialism concerns the use of rhetorical tactics by various industries in thwarting responsible public policy. May 2007
But thinking through the poem's artifice is only one way into it, and on the poem's own terms it is not necessarily a better path than the one pointed to by the rhetorical question of the Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
Paralipsis, also known as praeteritio, preterition, cataphasis, antiphrasis, or parasiopesis, is a rhetorical figure of speech wherein the speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked. Obama says George Bush is "a good guy," "a good man," and "a good person."
Cavell's writing displays the rhetorical features that we've seen in novelists and prose writers alike as they perform their thoughts.
He rhetorically asked, "What's next?"
It also might offend the tradespeople who work in the creation of buildings [tell this to any tradesperson and they might actually punch you in the face [and you'd deserve it]], with the judges asking rhetorically: “Is it true that all builders are cowboys, builders get their work blown down, and builders are like pigs?” 2008 January 24 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
The rhetorical construction of the subject is the foundational gesture of lyrical utterance.
Yet these rhetorical flourishes are sparingly deployed. The Times Literary Supplement
These arguments may have been used as a rhetorical device to argue for a perpetuation of a United Nations role.
One senior advisor asked, rhetorically, if illiterate farmers would vote for the information superhighway.

How To Use Rhetorical In A Sentence

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