rhetoric
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rhetoric |
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Barnumism, affectation, articulateness,
bedizenment, big talk, bluster,
bombast, choice of words, command of language, command of words, composition, convolution, debating, declamation, demagogism,
dialect, diction, effective style,
elocution, eloquence, eloquent tongue,
exaggeration, expression, expression of
ideas, expressiveness, facundity, fashion, feeling for words, felicitousness, felicity, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, forensics, form of speech, formulation, fulsomeness, fustian, garishness, gasconade, gaudiness, gift of expression, gift of gab, glibness, grace of expression, grammar, grandiloquence, grandioseness,
grandiosity, graphicness, high-flown diction, highfalutin, homiletics, hot air, idiom, inflatedness, inflation, language, lecturing, lexiphanicism, literary style, locution, loftiness, long-windedness, luridness, magniloquence, manner,
manner of speaking, mannerism, meaningfulness, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, mode, mode of expression, oratory, orotundity, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, parlance, peculiarity, personal style, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, platform oratory, platitudinous ponderosity, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontification,
pretension, pretentiousness, prolixity, prose run mad, public speaking, puffery, pyrotechnics, rabble-rousing, rant, rhapsody, rhetoricalness, rodomontade, sensationalism, sense of language, sententiousness, sesquipedality, showiness, silver tongue, slickness, smoothness, speaking, speech, speechcraft, speechification, speeching, speechmaking, stiltedness, strain, stump
speaking, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness,
talk, tall talk, the grand style, the plain style, the sublime, tortuosity, tortuousness,
trick, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, usage, use of words,
usus loquendi, vein, verbiage,
verbosity, vividness, way,
windiness, wordage, wordcraft, wordiness, wording
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Main entries similar to: rhetoric
affectation, big talk, bombast, command of language, composition, convolution, demagoguery,
dialect, diction, discourse, elocution, eloquence, exaggeration, expression, fashion, felicity, flatulence, forensics, formulation, gaudiness, gift of gab, glibness, grammar, grandiloquence, highfalutin, idiom, inflation, language, lecturing, literary style, locution, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, meaningfulness, mode, oratory, ostentation, parlance, peculiarity, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pomposity, pretension, pyrotechnics, rabble-rousing,
rant, raving, rhapsody, sensationalism, speaking, speech, strain, style,
stylistics, talk, trick, usage, vein, verbiage, way, wordage,
wording
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