| NOUN | communication | rhetoric | using language effectively to please or persuade |
|---|---|---|---|
| communication | rhetoric, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence | high-flown style | |
| communication | rhetoric, palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk | loud and confused and empty talk | |
| cognition | rhetoric | study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking) |
| Sounds | reh'terihk | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | academic ... Zurich: 733 rhymes with ihk... | |
| Meaning | Using language effectively to please or persuade. | |
|---|---|---|
| Parts | rhetorical device | A use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) |
| Broader | 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 |
| Spanish | retórica | |
| Catalan | retòrica | |
| Adjectives | rhetorical | of or relating to rhetoric |
| Nouns | rhetorician | a person who delivers a speech or oration |
| Meaning | High-flown style; excessive use of verbal / verbal ornamentation. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence | |
| Narrower | bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah | pompous or pretentious talk or writing |
| flourish | A display of ornamental speech or language | |
| Broader | 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 |
| Spanish | altilocuencia, altisonancia, grandilocuencia, grandiloqüencia | |
| Catalan | altiloqüència, altisonància, grandiloqüència | |
| Meaning | Loud and confused and empty talk. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "mere rhetoric" | |
| Synonyms | palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk | |
| Broader | nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum | A message that seems to convey no meaning / meaning |
| Spanish | charlatanería, palabrería | |
| Catalan | claca, xerrameca | |
| Meaning | study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking). | |
|---|---|---|
| Category of | allocution | (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts |
| anacoluthic | Of or related to syntactic inconsistencies of the sort known as anacoluthons | |
| epanodos | repetition of a group of words in reverse order | |
| epanodos | Recapitulation of the main ideas of a speech (especially in reverse order) | |
| exordium | (rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse | |
| narration | (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth | |
| peroration | (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration | |
| ploce | (rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning / meaning | |
| rhetorical device | A use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | |
| tropical | Characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes | |
| Broader | literary study | The humanistic study of literature |
| Spanish | retórica | |
| Adjectives | rhetorical | given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought |
| rhetorical | of or relating to rhetoric | |
| Nouns | rhetorician | a person who delivers a speech or oration |
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