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rhetoric - Dictionary definition and meaning for rhetoric

RHETORIC

  • (noun) study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)

  • (noun) loud and confused and empty talk

    "mere rhetoric"

    synonyms : empty talk , empty words , hot air , palaver

  • (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

    "the grandiosity of his prose", "an excessive ornateness of language"

    synonyms : grandiloquence , grandiosity , magniloquence , ornateness

  • (noun) using language effectively to please or persuade

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

Mnemonics for rhetoric

  • (Tag: ) 
    rhetoric = "right oral" skills. If you have the right oral skills, you can communicate well.

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  • (Tag: English) RHETORIC is right oral skills with little real sound knowledge

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  • (Tag: ) rhetorical questn is a questn which does not expects any ans frm t listener, bt provokes him to think on it just like putting him in words and entangling him.. its an art of communication (in hindi like shabdo ke jaal mein fasana)

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