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Rhetoric

noun

Using language effectively to please or persuade.

High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation. Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness. "An excessive ornateness of language"

Loud and confused and empty talk. Synonyms: empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver.

Study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking).

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"Rhetoric" Quotes from Famous Books

... leader, he was still the same gifted captain who had crushed the Taeping rebellion twenty years before. What he did for the Soudan and its people during six years' residence, at a personal sacrifice that never can be appreciated, has been told at length; but pages of rhetoric would not give as perfect a picture as the spontaneous cry of the blacks: "If we only had a governor like Gordon Pasha, then the country ...

— The Life of Gordon, Volume II • Demetrius Charles Boulger

... won't be made to appear," said Jenny, settling herself at her knitting, "only in some transcendental, poetic sense, such as papa can always make out. Papa is more than half a poet, and his truths turn out to be figures of rhetoric when one comes to apply them ...

— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... was wonderful. He spoke to an audience of five or ten thousand as he would have talked to a party of three or six. His style was simple, natural, unstrained; the lucid statement and cogent argument now and again irradiated by a salient passage of satire or a burst of not too eloquent rhetoric. ...

— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson

... futile attempt to establish Fruitlands on a solid basis. To use his own words in a letter now at our hand, though referring to another of Mr. Alcott's schemes, his little fortune was "buried in the same grave of flowery rhetoric in which so many other notions ...

— Life of Father Hecker • Walter Elliott

... is used as a sort of interjection, as in French. The partitive article is used precisely as in French. We meet the narrative infinitive with de. In short, the French reader feels at home in the Provencal sentence; it is the same syntax and, to a great degree, the same rhetoric. Only in the vocabulary does he feel himself ...

— Frederic Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence • Charles Alfred Downer

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