rhetorical style

collocation in English

meaningsofrhetoricalandstyle

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rhetorical
adjective
uk
/rɪˈtɒr.ɪ.kəl/us
/rɪˈtɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
Rhetorical speech or writing is intended to seem important or ...
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style
noun
uk
/staɪl/us
/staɪl/
a way of doing something, especially one that is typical of a person, group of people, place, ...
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(Definition ofrhetoricalandstylefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This "visionary"rhetoricalstyleexhibits two characteristics that reinforce one another in the twentieth century as well.
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This kind of playful double entendre is paradigmatic of the story'srhetoricalstyle.
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Thirdly, differences in the two languages may be attested that point in the direction of the distinctrhetoricalstyleof each of the two languages.
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We must therefore be careful of the conclusions we draw about emendations based uponrhetoricalstyle.
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Butrhetoricalstyle, general animation, narrative framing, and creativity might also offer clues to success at school.
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Here therhetoricalstyleis slightly more refined.
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There is a wide range of semantic and pragmatic phenomena on the fringe of dialect which sociolinguistics has not systematically addressed, having to do withrhetoricalstyle, stance, and implicature.
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Historians should also pay more attention to words and therhetoricalstyleof visitation records, and to the minutiae of changes within the repetitions that characterized such documents.
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Reagan found new ways to reinvent an oldrhetoricalstyle.
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They made it in different terms with a differentrhetoricalstyle, but with exactly the same substance.
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The position that he is being asked to defend threatens to undermine thatrhetoricalstyle.
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I am always grateful to him for hisrhetoricalstyle.
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According to the recollections of his students, his lectures sometimes deviated from the formalrhetoricalstyleand took on a more familiar character.
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Hisrhetoricalstylewas characterized by conservative use of language and carefully articulated viewpoints that many considered cold or even sarcastic.
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The pamphlet mixes both real observation and fabrication, and assumes therhetoricalstyleof his target.
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In highlyrhetoricalstyle, the aim he pursues is to transcend the limitation of secular literature of the courts.
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He was noted for the eloquence of hisrhetoricalstyle.
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He continues by asserting that, (it) was a mode of expression, arhetoricalstyle, not a tactic or a program.
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Therhetoricalstylecombines two major strategies: short, declarative statements and intentional contradictions.
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Seneca generally employed a pointedrhetoricalstyle.
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