英语词汇“rhetoric”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	rhetoric
释义	rhet·o·ric \ˈred.ərik, -etə-\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English rethorik, from Middle French rethorique, modification of Latin rhetorica, from Greek rhētorikē, from feminine of rhētorikos rhetorical, oratorical, from rhētor-, rhētōr orator + -ikos -ic — more at word 1. : the art of expressive speech or discourse; specifically a. : the study of principles and rules of composition formulated by ancient critics (as Aristotle and Quintilian) and interpreted by classical scholars for application to discourse in the vernacular b. : the art or practice of writing or speaking as means of communication or persuasion often with special concern for literary effect < freshman composition is a course in rhetoric — H.C.Bowersox > < the cultivation of grammar and rhetoric — John Dewey > 2. a. : skill in the effective use of speech : eloquence b. (1) : artificial elegance of language : discourse without conviction or earnest feeling (2) : inflated language : verbosity, bombast < that passage, sir, is not empty rhetoric — Virginia Woolf > < the enemy of rhetoric and every kind of artifice and virtuosity — Philip Rahv > < the mocking rhetoric upon a tombstone — J.C.Powys > c. : style of language < his rhetoric would not have been commended at Cambridge > < large, and sometimes loose, exalted simplicities of his rhetoric — Times Literary Supplement > 3. a. : verbal communication : discourse, speech < the temptation to establish peace by rhetoric — W.W.Van Kirk > < a rhetoric of fantastic slang — Edmund Wilson > b. : the verbal content of a composition (as a poem) or a body of literature < the deep hold that the symbols of free speech and other civil liberties have in American rhetoric — Max Lerner > c. : the verbal elements employed in or characteristic of discourse relating to a particular subject or area < made effective use of the rhetoric of liberalism — Sidney Hook > 4. : persuasive or moving power < mastery of expressive musical rhetoric — Carl Parrish & J.F.Ohl > < sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes — Samuel Daniel > 5. : a treatise on rhetoric; especially : a textbook on literary composition < the authors of freshman rhetorics — C.W.Shumaker >
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