Rhetoric

Rhetoric

The art of speaking or writing effectively; skill in the eloquent use of language.

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rhetoric

Education; SAT vocabulary

The art of discourse.

rhetoric

Language; Terminology

The technique of speaking effectively in public. Regarded in the past as an art and cultivated deliberately.

rhetoric

Literature; Literary terms

The art of speaking or writing effectively; rhetoric can also mean exaggerated language in speech or writing.

rhetoric

Literature; Poetry

The art of speaking or writing effectively; skill in the eloquent use of language.

rhetoric

Psychology; Psychiatry

The art of using language to communicate effectively and persuasively

rhetoric

Politics; Political Science

The art of persuasive and impressive speaking or writing. Can also mean speech or writing that is elaborate or showy or insincere.

alliterative metre

Literature; Poetry

The distinctive verse form of old germanic poetry, including old english.

amoebean verse

Literature; Poetry

A poetic form in which two characters chant alternate lines, couplets, or stanzas, in competition or debate with one another.

anapaest

Literature; Poetry

A metrical foot made up of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word 'interrupt'.

anxiety of influence

Literature; Poetry

In the unusual view of literary history offered by the critic Harold Bloom, a poet's sense of the crushing weight of poetic tradition which he has to resist and challenge in order ...

acephalous

Literature; Poetry

The Greek word for 'headless', applied to a metrical verse line that lacks the first syllable expected according to regular metre.

alcaics

Literature; Poetry

A Greek verse form using a four-line stanza in which the first two lines have eleven syllables each, the third nine, and the fourth ten.

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