Definition of rhetoric

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Rhetoric (n.) The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose..

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Rhetorication :: Rhetorication (n.) Rhetorical amplification.
Bastile Bastille :: Bastile Bastille (n.) The Bastille, formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison..
Flourish :: Flourish (v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
Apostrophic :: Apostrophic (a.) Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical..
Tropology :: Tropology (n.) A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word..
Permiss :: Permiss (n.) A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing is committed to the decision of one's opponent.
Topic :: Topic (n.) One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory..
Declamation :: Declamation (n.) The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students..
Trivium :: Trivium (n.) The three liberal arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence..
Imagery :: Imagery (n.) Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.
Rhetorician :: Rhetorician (n.) A teacher of rhetoric.
Rhetorician :: Rhetorician (n.) An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer..
Froth :: Froth (n.) Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought..
Deliberative :: Deliberative (n.) A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it..
Flourish :: Flourish (v. t.) To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
Rhetorician :: Rhetorician (n.) One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
Rhetoricate :: Rhetoricate (v. i.) To play the orator.
Declamatory :: Declamatory (a.) Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme..
Rethoryke :: Rethoryke (n.) Rhetoric.
Irrhetorical :: Irrhetorical (a.) Not rethorical.
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