Dictionary entry details
• RHETORIC (noun)
Meaning:
Using language effectively to please or persuade
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("rhetoric" is a kind of...):
expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)
Meronyms (parts of "rhetoric"):
rhetorical device (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))
Meaning:
High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
ornateness; magniloquence; grandiosity; grandiloquence; rhetoric
Context examples:
the grandiosity of his prose / an excessive ornateness of language
Hypernyms ("rhetoric" is a kind of...):
expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rhetoric"):
flourish (a display of ornamental speech or language)
blah; bombast; claptrap; fustian; rant (pompous or pretentious talk or writing)
Meaning:
Loud and confused and empty talk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
empty talk; empty words; hot air; palaver; rhetoric
Context example:
mere rhetoric
Hypernyms ("rhetoric" is a kind of...):
bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)
Meaning:
Study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("rhetoric" is a kind of...):
literary study (the humanistic study of literature)
Domain member category:
anacoluthic (of or related to syntactic inconsistencies of the sort known as anacoluthons)
tropical (characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense)
allocution ((rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts)
ploce ((rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning)
epanodos (recapitualtion of the main ideas of a speech (especially in reverse order))
epanodos (repetition of a group of words in reverse order)
rhetorical device (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))
peroration ((rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration)
narration ((rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth)
exordium ((rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse)
