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"mere rhetorical frippery"adjectivegiven to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought
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"accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested" "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"of or relating to rhetoric
Definition that contains rhetorical
- repetition the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
- exclamation an exclamatory rhetorical device
- oratory addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)
- meiosis understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)
- stylistically in a rhetorically stylistic manner
- rhetorically in a rhetorical manner
- magniloquently in a rhetorically grandiloquent manner
- end-stopped (verse) having a rhetorical pause at the end of each line
- gemination the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect)
- epideictic designed primarily for rhetorical display