Associations to the word «Rhetoric»
Noun
- Aristotle
- Oratory
- Persuasion
- Cicero
- Eloquence
- Cite
- Orator
- Pathos
- Populist
- Lettre
- Grammar
- Plato
- Logic
- Humanism
- Pedagogy
- Discourse
- Oration
- Humanist
- Socrates
- Astronomy
- Treatise
- Metaphor
- Ethic
- Philosophy
- Prose
- Renaissance
- Linguistic
- Geometry
- Philology
- Ars
- Romanticism
- Semitism
- Reasoning
- Ideology
- Fallacy
- Mathematic
- Classical
- Irony
- Preaching
- Nineteenth
- Erasmus
- Hearer
- Critique
- Poetry
- Speech
- Latin
- Encyclopedia
- Theorist
- Anti
- Precept
- Aesthetics
- Argument
- Invention
- Contingency
- Lat
- Eighteenth
- Belle
- Syntax
- Theology
- Textbook
- Nationalism
- Fascism
- Augustine
- Criticism
- Linguistics
- Professorship
- Liberalism
- Connotation
- Fascist
Adjective
Wiktionary
RHETORIC, adjective. Synonym of rhetorical.
RHETORIC, noun. The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.
RHETORIC, noun. Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.
Dictionary definition
RHETORIC, noun. Using language effectively to please or persuade.
RHETORIC, noun. High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language".
RHETORIC, noun. Loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric".
RHETORIC, noun. Study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking).
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.