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rhetorical

/rɪˈtɒrɪk(ə)l

adjective

1Relating to or concerned with the art of rhetoric: repetition is a common rhetorical device...

Such an ambivalence would make for incoherence and would be hard to accept if we had here mere rhetorical devices and style recipes.
Yet isn't prosopopeia a rhetorical device that is found, as a matter of course, in all poetry?
Hamlet as a play is similarly preoccupied by slander, misrepresentation and selves fabricated from the nothings of rhetorical tropes.

Synonyms

stylistic, oratorical, linguistic, verbal

1.1Expressed in terms intended to persuade or impress: the rhetorical commitment of the government to give priority to primary education...

In the second phase it will be necessary to be practical as well as rhetorical, to persuade as well as instruct.
But one has to be aware of the rhetorical value that these terms are going to have.
The bottom line is that the party maintains a rhetorical commitment to small government but tacitly admits that their cause is hopeless.

Synonyms

extravagant, grandiloquent, magniloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, sonorous, lofty, orotund, bombastic, grandiose, pompous, pretentious, overblown, overripe, oratorical, turgid, flowery, florid, declamatory, Ciceronian

informal highfalutin

rare tumid, epideictic, fustian, euphuistic, aureate, Demosthenic, Demosthenean

2(Of a question) asked in order to produce an effect or to make a statement rather than to elicit information: the general intended his question to be purely rhetorical...

It might be a rather petulant rhetorical question, or he might just be trying to keep me on the phone.
Kyle didn't offer him the time to answer the rather rhetorical question.
It was a statement, a rhetorical question, and just by looking at her he was sure that it had made her angry.

Origin

Late Middle English (first used in the sense 'eloquently expressed'): via Latin from Greek rhētorikos (from rhētor 'rhetor') + -al.

单词	rhetorical
释义	rhetorical /rɪˈtɒrɪk(ə)l / adjective 1Relating to or concerned with the art of rhetoric: repetition is a common rhetorical device... Such an ambivalence would make for incoherence and would be hard to accept if we had here mere rhetorical devices and style recipes. Yet isn't prosopopeia a rhetorical device that is found, as a matter of course, in all poetry? Hamlet as a play is similarly preoccupied by slander, misrepresentation and selves fabricated from the nothings of rhetorical tropes. Synonyms stylistic, oratorical, linguistic, verbal 1.1Expressed in terms intended to persuade or impress: the rhetorical commitment of the government to give priority to primary education... In the second phase it will be necessary to be practical as well as rhetorical, to persuade as well as instruct. But one has to be aware of the rhetorical value that these terms are going to have. The bottom line is that the party maintains a rhetorical commitment to small government but tacitly admits that their cause is hopeless. Synonyms extravagant, grandiloquent, magniloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, sonorous, lofty, orotund, bombastic, grandiose, pompous, pretentious, overblown, overripe, oratorical, turgid, flowery, florid, declamatory, Ciceronian informal highfalutin rare tumid, epideictic, fustian, euphuistic, aureate, Demosthenic, Demosthenean 2(Of a question) asked in order to produce an effect or to make a statement rather than to elicit information: the general intended his question to be purely rhetorical... It might be a rather petulant rhetorical question, or he might just be trying to keep me on the phone. Kyle didn't offer him the time to answer the rather rhetorical question. It was a statement, a rhetorical question, and just by looking at her he was sure that it had made her angry. Origin Late Middle English (first used in the sense 'eloquently expressed'): via Latin from Greek rhētorikos (from rhētor 'rhetor') + -al. Rhymes ahistorical, allegorical, categorical, historical, metaphorical, oratorical, phantasmagorical
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