All rhetoric synonyms

noun rhetoric

• meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
• echoism — onomatopoeia.
• asyndeton — the omission of a conjunction between the parts of a sentence
• wordage — words collectively.
• anaphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word previously used in the same discourse. In the sentence John wrote the essay in the library but Peter did it at home, both did and it are examples of anaphora
• eloquence — Fluent or persuasive speaking or writing.
• figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
• facundity — (archaic) eloquence; readiness of speech.
• diction — Someone's diction is how clearly they speak or sing.
• logorrhea — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
• eloquentness — The quality of being eloquent.
• antistrophe — the second of two movements made by a chorus during the performance of a choral ode
• litotes — understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.”.
• alliteration — Alliteration is the use in speech or writing of several words close together which all begin with the same letter or sound.
• wordiness — characterized by or given to the use of many, or too many, words; verbose: She grew impatient at his wordy reply.
• expressiveness — The quality of being expressive; expressivity.
• expressivity — (uncountable) The quality of being expressive.
• loquaciousness — talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest.
• discourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
• forensics — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
• floridness — The quality of being florid.
• bombast — Bombast is trying to impress people by saying things that sound impressive but have little meaning.
• gongorism — imitation of the ornate and intricate style of Góngora y Argote.
• fustian — a stout fabric of cotton and flax.
• aposiopesis — the device of suddenly breaking off in the middle of a sentence as if unwilling to continue
• metonymies — a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “count people.”.
• mellifluousness — sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
• metonymy — a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “count people.”.
• onomatopoeia — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
• malapropism — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
• adumbration — to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
• gabfest — a gathering at which there is a great deal of conversation.
• apostrophe — An apostrophe is the mark ' when it is written to indicate that one or more letters have been left out of a word, as in 'isn't' and 'we'll'. It is also added to nouns to form possessives, as in 'Mike's car'.
• gabfests — a gathering at which there is a great deal of conversation.
• altiloquence — Pompous language; lofty speech.
• ellipsis — The omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues.
• debating — the activity of taking part in debates
• command language — the language used to access a computer system
• windiness — The state of being windy (in all meanings).
• grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
• anti-strophe — the part of an ancient Greek choral ode answering a previous strophe, sung by the chorus when returning from left to right.
• wittiness — possessing wit in speech or writing; amusingly clever in perception and expression: a witty writer.
• elocution — The skill of clear and expressive speech, especially of distinct pronunciation and articulation.
• euphuism — An artificial, highly elaborate way of writing or speaking.
• oratory — skill or eloquence in public speaking: The evangelist moved thousands to repentance with his oratory.
• chalk talk — an informal lecture with pertinent points, explanatory diagrams, etc, shown on a blackboard