rhetoric

Meanings

• The use of language and rhetorical devices to persuade or influence an audience.

  - "In his speech, the politician used rhetoric to persuade the voters to support his proposal."
  - "The preacher used powerful rhetoric to inspire the congregation."

• The study of the methods and techniques used in persuasive speaking and writing.

  - "The student of rhetoric learned to use metaphors and analogies to make persuasive arguments."
  - "The lawyer's success in court often depended on his mastery of rhetoric."

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Synonyms

wordcraft

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with rhetoric
hermetic , metaphoric , demographic

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Variants

List of all variants of rhetoric that leads to same result
rhetoric , rhetorics , rhetorical , rhetorically

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Etymology

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From the Greek word 'rhetorikè techne', meaning 'the art of speaking'.

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Trivia

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1. The ancient Greeks believed that the god Apollo was the patron of rhetoric.

2. The Roman orator Cicero is considered one of the greatest masters of rhetoric in history.

3. The study of rhetoric was once a required subject in many universities.

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Related Concepts

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1. persuasion: The process of changing someone's attitude or behavior through reasoning or emotional appeals.

2. rhetorical devices: Techniques used in writing or speaking to persuade or engage an audience, such as metaphor, simile, alliteration, and repetition.

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Quotes

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1. Otherwise he might have been a great general, blowing up all sorts of towns, or he might have been a great politician, dealing in all sorts of parliamentary "rhetoric"; but as it was, he and the Court of Chancery had fallen upon each other in the pleasantest way, and nobody was much the worse …

   - Charles Dickens,{it}Bleak House{/it},1852-53

2. No speech could have been more thoroughly honest in its intention: the frigid "rhetoric" at the end was as sincere as the bark of a dog, or the cawing of an amorous rook.

   - George Eliot,{it}Middlemarch{/it},1872

3. What they are in reality are the romantic words of a man who needs glorious "rhetoric" to cover up murderous reality.

   - Pete Hamill,{it}Cosmopolitan{/it},April 1976

4. The media almost never discuss what the sweeping dismantling of public services inherent in the "rhetoric" of the antigovernment movement would mean in practice.

   - E. J. Dionne, Jr.,{it}Commonweal{/it},20 Nov. 2009

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Culture

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Rhetoric has been used throughout history to influence and persuade people in various contexts, from political speeches to religious sermons, from ancient Greece and Rome to modern times.

How to Memorize "rhetoric"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a speaker using gestures and facial expressions to emphasize key points in a persuasive speech.
   - Visualize a written argument with bold headings, bullet points, and underlined keywords.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'rhetoric' with the image of a charismatic speaker engaging a large audience.
   - Link the concept of rhetoric to the idea of persuasion and influence.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Remember the acronym R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Reason, Emotion, Story, Persuasive language, Ethos, Pathos, and Logos.
   - Use the phrase 'rhetoric is the art of persuasion' as a mnemonic device.

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