rhetorical

ಆಲಂಕಾರಿಕ
definition
adjective
repetition is a common rhetorical device
of, relating to, or concerned with the art of rhetoric.
example
Ovid's chiasmus is a 'rhetorical' picture of the lovers being pulled apart.
I ask these not as 'rhetorical' questions and not as a prelude to an intelligent statement that explains exactly how it ends.
Are their preferences driven less by political persuasions and by 'rhetorical' flourishes and more by the economic bottomline?
It presents an example of Chicana feminist rhetoric and an inroad to this 'rhetorical' tradition.
Imperialism is a term often used as a 'rhetorical' flourish and definitions vary especially in academic discourse and social discussion tracts.
I wasn't sure if this was a 'rhetorical' question or not.
Don't worry, these are all 'rhetorical' questions.
In the second phase it will be necessary to be practical as well as 'rhetorical' , to persuade as well as instruct.
But the president has a 'rhetorical' commitment which is hard to ditch.
Rather he makes an antagonistic statement, couched as a 'rhetorical' question.
With previous Tory leaders, there was at least a 'rhetorical' commitment to a return on the investment through tax cuts.
The bottom line is that the party maintains a 'rhetorical' commitment to small government but tacitly admits that their cause is hopeless.
It might be a rather petulant 'rhetorical' question, or he might just be trying to keep me on the phone.
Nevertheless, it may be that Paul's 'rhetorical' strategy can still be persuasive on another level.
Adding to the list of 'rhetorical' questions, why did the teenage daughter have such low standards for her boyfriend?
Few were willing to make more than a 'rhetorical' commitment to revolutionary activism.
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.
That's not a 'rhetorical' question; I'd really like to know.
The impression is of 'rhetorical' rings being run round Hamerton.
But, since the Doctor's question was obviously 'rhetorical' , I'm willing to let it slide.
That's a nice little 'rhetorical' trick, to pretend that the only possible omnivorous diet must be an unhealthy fast food one.
This, she shows, is a 'rhetorical' device, with no implication that the dead can actually communicate.
Why does Billmon keep asking these 'rhetorical' questions?
I don't regard that as a 'rhetorical' question: there is an answer.
The question I think that we're going to ask is, is this a 'rhetorical' commitment or is there something larger here?
Unlike Goodman, he stopped short of action by private individuals, but this may have been a 'rhetorical' device.
But one has to be aware of the 'rhetorical' value that these terms are going to have.
A broad 'rhetorical' commitment to this ideal coexisted with stringent restrictions on speech deemed radical or obscene.
It should be made clear that India in this regard is a synecdoche (a term of 'rhetorical' analysis for a part which stands for the whole).
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