rhetorical
retorik
definition
adjective
repetition is a common rhetorical device
of, relating to, or concerned with the art of rhetoric.
example
This is an argument from the field of descriptive linguistics, made for a 'rhetorical' audience of laypeople.
In a work of literature Stewart's lies would constitute synecdoche, the 'rhetorical' device in which a part stands for the whole.
But one has to be aware of the 'rhetorical' value that these terms are going to have.
It was a statement, a 'rhetorical' question, and just by looking at her he was sure that it had made her angry.
The bottom line is that the party maintains a 'rhetorical' commitment to small government but tacitly admits that their cause is hopeless.
With previous Tory leaders, there was at least a 'rhetorical' commitment to a return on the investment through tax cuts.
The poem avoids question marks not just because Merwin has eschewed all punctuation, but also because his questions are 'rhetorical' .
This isn't a 'rhetorical' question but one that, again, would help show whether they're applying this rule fairly or arbitrarily.
Farewells are commonly used 'rhetorical' tools intended to invite the listener/reader into the moment.
Nevertheless, it may be that Paul's 'rhetorical' strategy can still be persuasive on another level.
Unlike Goodman, he stopped short of action by private individuals, but this may have been a 'rhetorical' device.
Mr Henderson's 'rhetorical' question can be easily answered.
Before I even ask a 'rhetorical' question of how you feel about this, it has been such a joy to watch you come out here these past three weeks, and put your heart and soul into it.
Why does Billmon keep asking these 'rhetorical' questions?
Imperialism is a term often used as a 'rhetorical' flourish and definitions vary especially in academic discourse and social discussion tracts.
Kyle didn't offer him the time to answer the rather 'rhetorical' question.
As well as being badly written, it is too long, too vague, too pompous, too 'rhetorical' , too unrealistic and too boring.
While he has shown a 'rhetorical' commitment to reform, progress on the ground has been glacial.
Are their preferences driven less by political persuasions and by 'rhetorical' flourishes and more by the economic bottomline?
But not overly strong on our sense of irony, if the 'rhetorical' bombast of this article is anything to go by.
People waffle, ramble and throw 'rhetorical' questions into the ether in their blogs, or even just imply that they might wish for a better way round a certain situation.
The article is almost purely 'rhetorical' , with virtually nothing of substance offered in terms of legal arguments.
It is a 'rhetorical' strategy in which scriptural quotations, typologies, or tropes are used for satirical ends.
It might be a rather petulant 'rhetorical' question, or he might just be trying to keep me on the phone.
Such an ambivalence would make for incoherence and would be hard to accept if we had here mere 'rhetorical' devices and style recipes.
Adding to the list of 'rhetorical' questions, why did the teenage daughter have such low standards for her boyfriend?
She can only be answered with more 'rhetorical' questions.
In mentioning the range of the 'rhetorical' lexicon we are not simply talking about lists of tropes and figures.
Hamlet as a play is similarly preoccupied by slander, misrepresentation and selves fabricated from the nothings of 'rhetorical' tropes.
Ovid's chiasmus is a 'rhetorical' picture of the lovers being pulled apart.
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