rhetorical
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definition
adjective
repetition is a common rhetorical device
of, relating to, or concerned with the art of rhetoric.
example
Adding to the list of 'rhetorical' questions, why did the teenage daughter have such low standards for her boyfriend?
Isn't it ineffective to make statements over and over again in the form of 'rhetorical' questions?
It is a 'rhetorical' strategy in which scriptural quotations, typologies, or tropes are used for satirical ends.
A similar 'rhetorical' device is used to make numbers of weapons appear shocking.
Rather he makes an antagonistic statement, couched as a 'rhetorical' question.
The poem avoids question marks not just because Merwin has eschewed all punctuation, but also because his questions are 'rhetorical' .
Such an ambivalence would make for incoherence and would be hard to accept if we had here mere 'rhetorical' devices and style recipes.
Perhaps in the end, the equal opportunity principle is a matter of 'rhetorical' commitment more than practical credo.
It's in keeping with the rest of this discursive, stimulating book that Kermode leaves the reader with such a provocative, 'rhetorical' question.
In a work of literature Stewart's lies would constitute synecdoche, the 'rhetorical' device in which a part stands for the whole.
Are their preferences driven less by political persuasions and by 'rhetorical' flourishes and more by the economic bottomline?
She can only be answered with more 'rhetorical' questions.
But one has to be aware of the 'rhetorical' value that these terms are going to have.
But, since the Doctor's question was obviously 'rhetorical' , I'm willing to let it slide.
It might be a rather petulant 'rhetorical' question, or he might just be trying to keep me on the phone.
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 impression is of 'rhetorical' rings being run round Hamerton.
It was a statement, a 'rhetorical' question, and just by looking at her he was sure that it had made her angry.
Imperialism is a term often used as a 'rhetorical' flourish and definitions vary especially in academic discourse and social discussion tracts.
At minimum, the seller must establish enough of the attributes of attachment to establish the 'rhetorical' framework for persuasion.
Why does Billmon keep asking these 'rhetorical' questions?
But not overly strong on our sense of irony, if the 'rhetorical' bombast of this article is anything to go by.
Hamlet as a play is similarly preoccupied by slander, misrepresentation and selves fabricated from the nothings of 'rhetorical' tropes.
But even a 'rhetorical' commitment to sending back the money was influential, not least in the political development of Frederick Douglass, as we shall see.
It presents an example of Chicana feminist rhetoric and an inroad to this 'rhetorical' tradition.
Kyle didn't offer him the time to answer the rather 'rhetorical' question.
Mr Henderson's 'rhetorical' question can be easily answered.
It can not be guaranteed by either rhetoric or philosophy, by 'rhetorical' pragmatism or foundationalist theory.
A broad 'rhetorical' commitment to this ideal coexisted with stringent restrictions on speech deemed radical or obscene.
Successive governments have also proclaimed the goal of lifting growth rates, but too often their commitment has been 'rhetorical' only.
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