rhetoric

Noun
  1. Using language effectively to please or persuade (synset 107086738)
    is a type 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
    has: rhetorical device - a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
  2. High-flown style;
    Excessive use of verbal ornamentation (synset 107084469)
    "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"
    is a type 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
    subtypes:
    same as: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness
  3. Loud and confused and empty talk (synset 106621856)
    "mere rhetoric"
    is a type of: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality - a message that seems to convey no meaning
    same as: empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver
  4. Study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking) (synset 106180214)
    associated with:
    • 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
    • rhetorical device - a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
    • epanodos - repetition of a group of words in reverse order
    • epanodos - recapitulation of the main ideas of a speech (especially in reverse order)
    • ploce - (rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning
    • allocution - (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts
    • tropical - characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense
    • anacoluthic - of or related to syntactic inconsistencies of the sort known as anacoluthons
    is a type of: literary study - the humanistic study of literature

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