- rhetoric - using language effectively to please or persuade
--1 is a kind of expressive style, style
--1 has part: rhetorical device- grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric - high flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
--2 is a kind of expressive style, style
--2 has particulars:flourish; bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah - palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric - loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric"
--3 is a kind of nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
- rhetoric - study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
--4 is a kind of literary study
- grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric - high flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation