rhetoric

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noun

1. using language effectively to please or persuade
• Derivationally related forms:
rhetorician
• Hypernyms:
expressive style, style
• Part Meronyms:
rhetorical device
2. loud and confused and empty talk
- mere rhetoric
• Syn:
palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk
• Derivationally related forms:
palaver (for: palaver)
• Hypernyms:
nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
3. high-flown style;
excessive use of verbal ornamentation
- the grandiosity of his prose
- an excessive ornateness of language
• Syn:
grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence
• Derivationally related forms:
grandiloquent (for: grandiloquence), ornate (for: ornateness), magniloquent (for: magniloquence), grandiose (for: grandiosity)
• Hypernyms:
expressive style, style
• Hyponyms:
flourish, bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah
4. study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
• Derivationally related forms:
rhetorical, rhetorician
• Members of this Topic:
tropical, anacoluthic, exordium, narration, peroration,
rhetorical device, epanodos, ploce, allocution
• Hypernyms:
literary study

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence