Definition of rhetoric in English:

rhetoric

noun ˈrɛtərɪkˈrɛdərɪk

mass noun

1The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
he is using a common figure of rhetoric, hyperbole
Example sentencesExamples
- Invoke the slippery slope and construct a straw man to knock down with one fell swoop of rhetoric.
- It is the common rhetoric in the aftermath of wars that, with the war once won, the peace must not then be lost.
- This rhetoric was imitated in Elizabethan schools and began to make an impact on the stage.
- Are the audience really shocked into new ideas about rhetoric, oppression and language?
- Gellert's lectures on poetry, rhetoric, and ethics were exceptionally popular.
- Born into a rich provincial family, he studied philosophy as well as rhetoric and law.
- He too is the victim of the fashionable notion of rhetoric, logic and truth that was so widely admired at the time.
- In the late twentieth century rhetoric has been revived as the study of the structuring powers of discourse.
- From this perspective, Ovidian rhetoric works to conceal the very desire that organizes it.
- But both these opposite models of our selves are equally powerful in current rhetoric.
- The devices of rhetoric, however, did not lose their links with poetry or their practical ties with the law.
- As an ability, rhetoric is observable when people choose to engage in it.
- It may well be that the cities no longer had the resources to support a roster of teachers of grammar and rhetoric.
- But during his twenties he was not only teaching Latin literature and the arts of rhetoric.
- Much of the earlier writing is political rhetoric; much of the later is album verse.
- In either case, we can see that both argument and rhetoric are designed to persuade and impress.
- They may have seen themselves as reviving a more ancient tradition, that of rhetoric.
- The problem is that using modernist rhetoric does not make one modern.
- Young Athenian democrats needed rhetoric to persuade the democratic assemblies.
- In short, one can take the science out of rhetoric but not the rhetoric out of science.
Synonyms
oratory, eloquence, power of speech, command of language, expression, way with words, delivery, diction
1. 1.1 Language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect, but which is often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.
  all we have from the Opposition is empty rhetoric
  Example sentencesExamples
  Is it no more than rhetoric, designed to scare the mullahs and force them to drop their nuclear programme?
  It is as if everyone has been given a dictionary of war rhetoric to make us believe we are fighting for a reason.
  Such insipid, sophomoric rhetoric is best left in the empty heads that created it.
  Behind all the pomp and the communist rhetoric, this is a peace loving country.
  It actually shows up the huge amount of rhetoric and empty wording piece by piece.
  In their moment, election slogans, rhetoric and symbols seem to mean so very much.
  Like the style of their rhetoric, the content of their arguments was stirring; it was arousing.
  Don't simply opt for apparently powerful but ultimately empty, meaningless rhetoric.
  As a result, his promises have raised the art of empty rhetoric to new heights.
  You want to keep on pouring out the same old toxic separatist and communalist rhetoric.
  And you know, in the case of the captain, that is more than just empty rhetoric.
  We must implement a health strategy that puts patients first, not empty rhetoric.
  Many parties sound the same in their rhetoric and even look alike in their symbols.
  I am a sucker for rhetoric and a bit of uplift in some circumstances can be helpful.
  He delights in personal enrichment and seems to be lacking in political rhetoric.
  The Old Man, as he is known, would not want to be seen as the hapless prisoner of his own empty rhetoric.
  I have been impressed by rhetoric on dealing with inefficiency in the public services.
  The old trade union slogan ‘An injury to one is an injury to all’ is not just empty rhetoric.
  The visit should not be seen by the Acehnese as another act of empty rhetoric by Jakarta.
  Problems pile up but important Ministers are content to keep their date with rhetoric.
  Synonyms
  bombast, loftiness, turgidity, grandiloquence, magniloquence, ornateness, portentousness, pomposity, boastfulness, boasting, bragging, heroics, hyperbole, extravagant language, purple prose, pompousness, sonorousness
  windiness, wordiness, verbosity, prolixity
  informal hot air
  rare tumidity, fustian, euphuism, orotundity

Origin

Middle English: from Old French rethorique, via Latin from Greek rhētorikē (tekhnē) '(art) of rhetoric', from rhētōr 'rhetor'.

Definition of rhetoric in US English:

rhetoric

nounˈredərikˈrɛdərɪk

1The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
Example sentencesExamples
- Much of the earlier writing is political rhetoric; much of the later is album verse.
- Gellert's lectures on poetry, rhetoric, and ethics were exceptionally popular.
- Are the audience really shocked into new ideas about rhetoric, oppression and language?
- Young Athenian democrats needed rhetoric to persuade the democratic assemblies.
- Invoke the slippery slope and construct a straw man to knock down with one fell swoop of rhetoric.
- As an ability, rhetoric is observable when people choose to engage in it.
- In the late twentieth century rhetoric has been revived as the study of the structuring powers of discourse.
- The devices of rhetoric, however, did not lose their links with poetry or their practical ties with the law.
- Born into a rich provincial family, he studied philosophy as well as rhetoric and law.
- From this perspective, Ovidian rhetoric works to conceal the very desire that organizes it.
- It may well be that the cities no longer had the resources to support a roster of teachers of grammar and rhetoric.
- He too is the victim of the fashionable notion of rhetoric, logic and truth that was so widely admired at the time.
- In short, one can take the science out of rhetoric but not the rhetoric out of science.
- This rhetoric was imitated in Elizabethan schools and began to make an impact on the stage.
- The problem is that using modernist rhetoric does not make one modern.
- But both these opposite models of our selves are equally powerful in current rhetoric.
- But during his twenties he was not only teaching Latin literature and the arts of rhetoric.
- It is the common rhetoric in the aftermath of wars that, with the war once won, the peace must not then be lost.
- They may have seen themselves as reviving a more ancient tradition, that of rhetoric.
- In either case, we can see that both argument and rhetoric are designed to persuade and impress.
Synonyms
oratory, eloquence, power of speech, command of language, expression, way with words, delivery, diction
1. 1.1 Language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.
  all we have from the Opposition is empty rhetoric
  Example sentencesExamples
  Don't simply opt for apparently powerful but ultimately empty, meaningless rhetoric.
  Like the style of their rhetoric, the content of their arguments was stirring; it was arousing.
  We must implement a health strategy that puts patients first, not empty rhetoric.
  Is it no more than rhetoric, designed to scare the mullahs and force them to drop their nuclear programme?
  I have been impressed by rhetoric on dealing with inefficiency in the public services.
  The old trade union slogan ‘An injury to one is an injury to all’ is not just empty rhetoric.
  Problems pile up but important Ministers are content to keep their date with rhetoric.
  He delights in personal enrichment and seems to be lacking in political rhetoric.
  And you know, in the case of the captain, that is more than just empty rhetoric.
  The Old Man, as he is known, would not want to be seen as the hapless prisoner of his own empty rhetoric.
  Many parties sound the same in their rhetoric and even look alike in their symbols.
  You want to keep on pouring out the same old toxic separatist and communalist rhetoric.
  It actually shows up the huge amount of rhetoric and empty wording piece by piece.
  Behind all the pomp and the communist rhetoric, this is a peace loving country.
  In their moment, election slogans, rhetoric and symbols seem to mean so very much.
  I am a sucker for rhetoric and a bit of uplift in some circumstances can be helpful.
  The visit should not be seen by the Acehnese as another act of empty rhetoric by Jakarta.
  As a result, his promises have raised the art of empty rhetoric to new heights.
  It is as if everyone has been given a dictionary of war rhetoric to make us believe we are fighting for a reason.
  Such insipid, sophomoric rhetoric is best left in the empty heads that created it.
  Synonyms
  bombast, loftiness, turgidity, grandiloquence, magniloquence, ornateness, portentousness, pomposity, boastfulness, boasting, bragging, heroics, hyperbole, extravagant language, purple prose, pompousness, sonorousness

Origin

Middle English: from Old French rethorique, via Latin from Greek rhētorikē (tekhnē) ‘(art) of rhetoric’, from rhētōr ‘rhetor’.

单词	rhetoric
释义	Definition of rhetoric in English: rhetoric noun ˈrɛtərɪkˈrɛdərɪk mass noun 1The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. he is using a common figure of rhetoric, hyperbole Example sentencesExamples Invoke the slippery slope and construct a straw man to knock down with one fell swoop of rhetoric. It is the common rhetoric in the aftermath of wars that, with the war once won, the peace must not then be lost. This rhetoric was imitated in Elizabethan schools and began to make an impact on the stage. Are the audience really shocked into new ideas about rhetoric, oppression and language? Gellert's lectures on poetry, rhetoric, and ethics were exceptionally popular. Born into a rich provincial family, he studied philosophy as well as rhetoric and law. He too is the victim of the fashionable notion of rhetoric, logic and truth that was so widely admired at the time. In the late twentieth century rhetoric has been revived as the study of the structuring powers of discourse. From this perspective, Ovidian rhetoric works to conceal the very desire that organizes it. But both these opposite models of our selves are equally powerful in current rhetoric. The devices of rhetoric, however, did not lose their links with poetry or their practical ties with the law. As an ability, rhetoric is observable when people choose to engage in it. It may well be that the cities no longer had the resources to support a roster of teachers of grammar and rhetoric. But during his twenties he was not only teaching Latin literature and the arts of rhetoric. Much of the earlier writing is political rhetoric; much of the later is album verse. In either case, we can see that both argument and rhetoric are designed to persuade and impress. They may have seen themselves as reviving a more ancient tradition, that of rhetoric. The problem is that using modernist rhetoric does not make one modern. Young Athenian democrats needed rhetoric to persuade the democratic assemblies. In short, one can take the science out of rhetoric but not the rhetoric out of science. Synonyms oratory, eloquence, power of speech, command of language, expression, way with words, delivery, diction 1.1 Language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect, but which is often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content. all we have from the Opposition is empty rhetoric Example sentencesExamples Is it no more than rhetoric, designed to scare the mullahs and force them to drop their nuclear programme? It is as if everyone has been given a dictionary of war rhetoric to make us believe we are fighting for a reason. Such insipid, sophomoric rhetoric is best left in the empty heads that created it. Behind all the pomp and the communist rhetoric, this is a peace loving country. It actually shows up the huge amount of rhetoric and empty wording piece by piece. In their moment, election slogans, rhetoric and symbols seem to mean so very much. Like the style of their rhetoric, the content of their arguments was stirring; it was arousing. Don't simply opt for apparently powerful but ultimately empty, meaningless rhetoric. As a result, his promises have raised the art of empty rhetoric to new heights. You want to keep on pouring out the same old toxic separatist and communalist rhetoric. And you know, in the case of the captain, that is more than just empty rhetoric. We must implement a health strategy that puts patients first, not empty rhetoric. Many parties sound the same in their rhetoric and even look alike in their symbols. I am a sucker for rhetoric and a bit of uplift in some circumstances can be helpful. He delights in personal enrichment and seems to be lacking in political rhetoric. The Old Man, as he is known, would not want to be seen as the hapless prisoner of his own empty rhetoric. I have been impressed by rhetoric on dealing with inefficiency in the public services. The old trade union slogan ‘An injury to one is an injury to all’ is not just empty rhetoric. The visit should not be seen by the Acehnese as another act of empty rhetoric by Jakarta. Problems pile up but important Ministers are content to keep their date with rhetoric. Synonyms bombast, loftiness, turgidity, grandiloquence, magniloquence, ornateness, portentousness, pomposity, boastfulness, boasting, bragging, heroics, hyperbole, extravagant language, purple prose, pompousness, sonorousness windiness, wordiness, verbosity, prolixity informal hot air rare tumidity, fustian, euphuism, orotundity Origin Middle English: from Old French rethorique, via Latin from Greek rhētorikē (tekhnē) '(art) of rhetoric', from rhētōr 'rhetor'. Definition of rhetoric in US English: rhetoric nounˈredərikˈrɛdərɪk 1The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. Example sentencesExamples Much of the earlier writing is political rhetoric; much of the later is album verse. Gellert's lectures on poetry, rhetoric, and ethics were exceptionally popular. Are the audience really shocked into new ideas about rhetoric, oppression and language? Young Athenian democrats needed rhetoric to persuade the democratic assemblies. Invoke the slippery slope and construct a straw man to knock down with one fell swoop of rhetoric. As an ability, rhetoric is observable when people choose to engage in it. In the late twentieth century rhetoric has been revived as the study of the structuring powers of discourse. The devices of rhetoric, however, did not lose their links with poetry or their practical ties with the law. Born into a rich provincial family, he studied philosophy as well as rhetoric and law. From this perspective, Ovidian rhetoric works to conceal the very desire that organizes it. It may well be that the cities no longer had the resources to support a roster of teachers of grammar and rhetoric. He too is the victim of the fashionable notion of rhetoric, logic and truth that was so widely admired at the time. In short, one can take the science out of rhetoric but not the rhetoric out of science. This rhetoric was imitated in Elizabethan schools and began to make an impact on the stage. The problem is that using modernist rhetoric does not make one modern. But both these opposite models of our selves are equally powerful in current rhetoric. But during his twenties he was not only teaching Latin literature and the arts of rhetoric. It is the common rhetoric in the aftermath of wars that, with the war once won, the peace must not then be lost. They may have seen themselves as reviving a more ancient tradition, that of rhetoric. In either case, we can see that both argument and rhetoric are designed to persuade and impress. Synonyms oratory, eloquence, power of speech, command of language, expression, way with words, delivery, diction 1.1 Language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content. all we have from the Opposition is empty rhetoric Example sentencesExamples Don't simply opt for apparently powerful but ultimately empty, meaningless rhetoric. Like the style of their rhetoric, the content of their arguments was stirring; it was arousing. We must implement a health strategy that puts patients first, not empty rhetoric. Is it no more than rhetoric, designed to scare the mullahs and force them to drop their nuclear programme? I have been impressed by rhetoric on dealing with inefficiency in the public services. The old trade union slogan ‘An injury to one is an injury to all’ is not just empty rhetoric. Problems pile up but important Ministers are content to keep their date with rhetoric. He delights in personal enrichment and seems to be lacking in political rhetoric. And you know, in the case of the captain, that is more than just empty rhetoric. The Old Man, as he is known, would not want to be seen as the hapless prisoner of his own empty rhetoric. Many parties sound the same in their rhetoric and even look alike in their symbols. You want to keep on pouring out the same old toxic separatist and communalist rhetoric. It actually shows up the huge amount of rhetoric and empty wording piece by piece. Behind all the pomp and the communist rhetoric, this is a peace loving country. In their moment, election slogans, rhetoric and symbols seem to mean so very much. I am a sucker for rhetoric and a bit of uplift in some circumstances can be helpful. The visit should not be seen by the Acehnese as another act of empty rhetoric by Jakarta. As a result, his promises have raised the art of empty rhetoric to new heights. It is as if everyone has been given a dictionary of war rhetoric to make us believe we are fighting for a reason. Such insipid, sophomoric rhetoric is best left in the empty heads that created it. Synonyms bombast, loftiness, turgidity, grandiloquence, magniloquence, ornateness, portentousness, pomposity, boastfulness, boasting, bragging, heroics, hyperbole, extravagant language, purple prose, pompousness, sonorousness Origin Middle English: from Old French rethorique, via Latin from Greek rhētorikē (tekhnē) ‘(art) of rhetoric’, from rhētōr ‘rhetor’.
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