Definition of Rhetoric

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Rhetoric

The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose.

Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force.

Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.

Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms.

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Rhetoric Quotations

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
Theodore Roosevelt

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Plato

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
Mel Brooks

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
William Butler Yeats

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Thomas Sowell

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Friedrich Schiller

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
Christopher Lasch

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
Christopher Lasch

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
Mary Astell

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
Adolf Hitler

Rhetoric Translations

rhetoric in Dutch is rederijkerskunst, retoriek
rhetoric in German is Rhetorik, Redekunst
rhetoric in Swedish is retorik

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