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Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. It is one of the
three ancient arts of
discourse (trivium)
along with
grammar and logic/dialectic. As an
academic discipline...
- A
rhetorical question is a
question asked for a
purpose other than to
obtain information. In many
cases it may be
intended to
start a discourse, as a means...
- Arwā bint al-Ḥārith (Arabic: أروى بنت الحارث) was an
eloquent and
rhetorically skilled sahabiya and the
cousin of
Muhammad and Ali. She was the daughter...
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critic upon
imaginative works who has
written in America," suggesting—
rhetorically—that he
occasionally used
prussic acid
instead of ink. Poe's
often caustic...
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South Africa; see
Palestinian enclaves), or Hamas'
religious policies (
rhetorically likened to the Taliban's rule of Afghanistan) or, alternatively, political...
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political views that he
never believed but
which he
thought would be
rhetorically effective. The poem
describes the
history that led up to the Spanish...
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consolatory oration is a type of
ceremonial oratory,
typically used
rhetorically to
comfort mourners at funerals. It was one of the most po****r classical...
- philosophy.
Irony is a
recurring characteristic of his writing, such as
rhetorically implying that his
readers already know
something to be true,
which engages...
- speculation,
saying that he had
never intended to run for Senate,
adding rhetorically, "Who couldn't
figure that out?". He
later clarified that the campaign...
- New York City. The New York Times, in its
positive review of the play,
rhetorically asked, "Who
would have
thought that the
novel no high
school student...
