rhetorical criticism

collocation in English

meaningsofrhetoricalandcriticism

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rhetorical
adjective
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/rɪˈtɒr.ɪ.kəl/us
/rɪˈtɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
Rhetorical speech or writing is intended to seem important or ...
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criticism
noun[C or U]
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/ˈkrɪt.ɪ.sɪ.zəm/us
/ˈkrɪt̬.ɪ.sɪ.zəm/
the act of saying that something or someone ...
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(Definition ofrhetoricalandcriticismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Conlogue's interpretations are interspersed with sharprhetoricalcriticismof articles from the farm press that are contemporaneous with each literary work.
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By the mid-1980s, however, the study ofrhetoricalcriticismbegan to move away from precise methodology towards conceptual issues.
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This stage of cluster criticism can incorporate other methods inrhetoricalcriticism.
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While the term has remained mostly in this sphere of academicrhetoricalcriticism, some political consultants and practitioners are becoming savvy to this art.
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Methodologicalrhetoricalcriticismis typically done by deduction, where a broad method is used to examine a specific case of rhetoric.
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First,rhetoricalcriticismhopes to help form or improve public taste.
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This means that modernrhetoricalcriticismis based in how the rhetorical case or object persuades, defines, or constructs the audience.
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In short,rhetoricalcriticismseeks to understand how symbols act on people.
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Rhetoricalcriticismcan then be broke into judgement and understanding.
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Rhetoricalcriticismhas gained more recognition and importance in the past forty years, especially in the academic field.
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Rhetoricalcriticism, then, is the exploration of literature in the light of melos, opsis, and their interplay as manifested in lexis.
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Fantasy theme analysis is a humanistic method ofrhetoricalcriticism.
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In addition to critique on traditionalrhetoricalcriticismapproach, this book also constructed an alternative approach, which he called the rhetorical transaction.
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Genre criticism has thus become one of the main methodologies withinrhetoricalcriticism.
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In some cases it is difficult to distinguish betweenrhetoricalcriticismand literary criticism, or other disciplines.
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Rhetoricalcriticismputs the focus on what a piece of work does, not what it is.
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Rhetoricalcriticismserves several purposes or functions.
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