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Vocabulary
Rhetoric
Rhetoric usually refers to speech which is too long or too pompous?
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Rhetoric refers to the devices used to deliver a speech. For example, use of emotional appeals, slogans, personal stories, metaphors, parallel structure, summation, repetition of key phrases. Rhetoric covers how to give a speech, rather than the value of what is said.
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Rhetoric refers to the devices used to deliver a speech. For example, use of emotional appeals, slogans, personal stories, metaphors, parallel structure, summation, repetition of key phrases. Rhetoric covers how to give a speech, rather than the value of what is said. Because of this, the term may have the sense of empty, meaningless speech ("mere rhetoric"). Length has nothing to do with
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