Synonym: empty talk, empty words, grandiloquence, grandiosity, hot air, magniloquence, ornateness, palaver. Similar words: historic, historical, historically, historian, whether, all the time, aesthetic, by the time. Meaning: ['retərɪk] 
n. 1. using language effectively to please or persuade 2. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation 3. loud and confused and empty talk 4. study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking).
n. 1. using language effectively to please or persuade 2. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation 3. loud and confused and empty talk 4. study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking). 
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211 This is the point that de Man is making in Semiology and Rhetoric that there is a perpetual tension in any utterance between grammar and rhetoric.
212 It symbolizes interest in deeds rather than verbal eloquence and rhetoric.
213 Agitation, brevity and pertinency are the three characteristics of advertisement rhetoric.
214 In viewing narrative as rhetoric, Phelan emphasizes narrative as a multilayered communication from an implied author to an authorial audience by means of textual strategies.
215 Oxymoron is a rhetoric device that, by force of the surface contradiction of language forms, can express the ideas not only clearly and exactly but also more pithily, deeply and strongly.
More similar words: historic, historical, historically, historian, whether, all the time, aesthetic, by the time, on the table, at the time of, rice, at the thought of, for the time being, origin, trick, brick, price, minority, major in, horizon, let out, let off, get off, see to, get out, get on, fabric, African, strict, favorite.