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
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.