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Rhetoric

Rhetoric meaning

Synonym of rhetorical.

Example sentences (20)

We have heard reports recently of anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim rhetoric that should be as offensive to Jews as anti-Jewish rhetoric should be to others.

His harshest critics even claim, without real evidence, that his rhetoric culpably helped motivate the killer, much in the way Israel’s leaders now claim Mahmoud Abbas’s rhetoric inspires terrorists.

As for Trump, many people have already between his rhetoric (and the rhetoric of conservative commentators) and the El Paso shooter.

We have in power in the Anglosphere three very dangerous men, allied in rhetoric, tactics and intent – to maintain and enhance the power of the few under the cover of populist rhetoric.

Although he is not commonly regarded as a rhetorician, St. Augustine (354-430) was trained in rhetoric and was at one time a professor of Latin rhetoric in Milan.

Aristotle's art of rhetoric emphasizes persuasion as the purpose of rhetoric.

Aristotle's treatise on rhetoric systematically describes civic rhetoric as a human art or skill (techne).

Augustine exerted strong influence on Christian rhetoric in the Middle Ages, advocating the use of rhetoric to lead audiences to truth and understanding, especially in the church.

Boethius (480?-524), in his brief Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric, continues Aristotle's taxonomy by placing rhetoric in subordination to philosophical argument or dialectic.

Collectively, they write, twentieth century rhetorical studies offered an understanding of rhetoric that demonstrated a "rich complexity" of how rhetorical scholars understood the nature of rhetoric.

Eugene Garver, in his critique of "Aristotle's Rhetoric", confirms that Aristotle viewed rhetoric as a civic art.

In his scheme of things, the five components of rhetoric no longer lived under the common heading of rhetoric.

In the rhetoric field, there is an intellectual debate about Aristotle's definition of rhetoric.

In the words of Aristotle, in the Rhetoric, rhetoric is "..

It studies rhetoric in different times and locations, looking at similarities in the rhetorical situation and the rhetoric that responds to them.

Knowledge of rhetoric was so dim in the early 1970s that his short memoir on rhetoric was seen as highly innovative.

Links between the two strands—literary and philosophical—of the French school of rhetoric are strong and collaborative, and bear witness to the revival of rhetoric in France.

Neo-Aristotelians generally study rhetoric as political discourse, while the neo-Sophistic view contends that rhetoric cannot be so limited.

Rhetoric It is widely believed that Aristophanes condemned rhetoric on both moral and political grounds.

Rhetoric reentered secondary curriculum in fits and starts, but never regained the prominence it had enjoyed under the ancien régime, although the penultimate year of secondary education was known as the Class of Rhetoric.