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English noun: rhetoric | |||
| 1. | rhetoric (communication) using language effectively to please or persuade | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | expressive style, style | ||
| Part holonym | rhetorical device | ||
| 2. | rhetoric (communication) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | ||
| Samples | The grandiosity of his prose. An excessive ornateness of language. | ||
| Synonyms | grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | expressive style, style | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | blah, bombast, claptrap, flourish, fustian, rant | ||
| 3. | rhetoric (communication) loud and confused and empty talk | ||
| Samples | Mere rhetoric. | ||
| Synonyms | empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality | ||
| 4. | rhetoric (cognition) study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | literary study | ||
| Domain category members | allocution, anacoluthic, epanodos, epanodos, exordium, narration, peroration, ploce, rhetorical device, tropical | ||
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