Rhetoric Edit Meaning

1.

The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively

I would tear you apart with my rhetoric

See John

2.

The skill of using words effectively and/or persuasively

The excessiveuse of high sounding words

Empty talk

The salesman spoke with such rhetoric, I bought 50 hammers he was selling.

See eloquence, persuasive

3.

Rhetoric is the facilitation of efficacious discourse, and the inquiry into the terms on the basis of which discourse is taken to be efficacious or not.

Max studied rhetoric at Berkeley, helping him become the leader of the small town debate team.

See bullshit, speech, pretentious, writing