Rhetoric is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RHETORIC in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the study of effective speech and writing
• the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques
• language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect, but which is often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content
• art of effective speaking or writing
• The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose.
• Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force.
• Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.
• Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms.
• using language effectively to please or persuade
• high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
• loud and confused and empty talk
• study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)

Words related to RHETORIC

rhetorics14

Words that contain RHETORIC

rhetorics14 rhetorical15 rhetorician16 rhetorically20 rhetoricians17 unrhetorical17

How to use RHETORIC in a sentence

• Thus did our young hero not only lend his rhetoric, which few people care to do without a fee, but his money too, to procure liberty for his friend.
• The Dead may be known for back-to-the-earth environmentalist rhetoric, but this hardly makes them anti-technological Luddites.
• To be exact, however, I must confess that I read rather than studied rhetoric.
• I believed now that ours was a pure and noble quest, and that I was a warrior of Truth, not a casualty of rhetoric.
• The number of works dealing with rhetoric are few, but if a man can get half-a-dozen new ideas from any one of them his labour is more than repaid.
• I should except Rhetoric, a very essential member of them, and which I suppose must be taught to advantage where you are.
• He knows by experience that rhetoric exercises great influence over other men, but he is unable to explain the puzzle how rhetoric can teach everything and know nothing.
• He can hardly understand the meaning of Archelaus being miserable, or of rhetoric being only useful in self-accusation.
• And now I have told you my notion of rhetoric, which is, in relation to the soul, what cookery is to the body.
• Rhetoric continued to be cultivated, but eloquence no longer possessed the power which it held under the Republic.
• It was embellished with all the ornaments of rhetoric, and warmed with a noble spirit of patriotic indignation.
• Instead of proving love by deeds, as in times past, we have taken to argument and rhetoric and debate.
• They too, in their turn, became a professional rhetoric, false and tedious.
• Written poetry, grammar, rhetoric, all are impossible to the student who draws his knowledge from such a source.
• We have only to reflect a moment to see that rhetoric as it is commonly taught can by no possibility give actual skill.
• Though rules for it cannot be given, it will be found to be a natural result of following all the principles of grammar, rhetoric, and composition.
• Concerning Thought, we may assume what is said in the Rhetoric, to which inquiry the subject more strictly belongs.
• The professed subject is Rhetoric, which, as an art, Sokrates professes to hold in contempt.
• He was full of compliments, of information, even of rhetoric.
• As biographies they will not be remembered, but as instances of labored learning, of careful special pleading, and of brilliant rhetoric.
• His earnestness broke over and broke through all rules of rhetoric.
• I know nothing and have known nothing of oratory or rhetoric.

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