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Definition of Rhetorics

1. rhetoric [n] - See also: rhetoric

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhetorics

Literary usage of Rhetorics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"THE 'rhetorics' OF THE ... influence which it exercised on Prance in the de- The rhetorics of the partment with which we here deal. ..."

2. English Composition as a Social Problem by Sterling Andrus Leonard (1917)
"Dr. Reynolds, for example,1 suggests that many which we have rigorously attended to — comprising, he thinks, fully one half of the bulk of most rhetorics ..."

3. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"or the finding of arguments in the old logics and rhetorics. The kind of exercise involved in invention tested the pupils' powers of thought as well as of ..."

4. Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities by Edward Wheeler Scripture, Fred Newton Scott, Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, Clarence Linton Meader, Carl Schurz, Merle Harrold Thorpe, James Geddes, Calvin Milton Woodward, Orestes Pearle Rhyne, Claud Howard, Roger Wells, Otto Eduard Lessing (1907)
"... works: Aristotle's Poetics; The Treatise on the Sublime by Longinus; Horace's Ars Poetica; Cicero's De Invention« rhetorics, De Oratore, Brutus, Orator, ..."

5. Y Cymmrodor edited by Thomas Powel, Isambard Owen, Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore (1904)
"... so that, on the whole, I venture, though with great diffidence, to suggest the above as the sense of the fragmentary dialogue. xi. IRISH rhetorics. ..."

6. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in by Donald Lemen Clark (1922)
"They differed only because they used different kinds of proof. 2. THE INFLUENCE OP THE CLASSICAL rhetorics A more explicit influence on the renaissance ..."

7. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in by Donald Lemen Clark (1922)
"THE INFLUENCE OF THE CLASSICAL rhetorics A more explicit influence on the renaissance belief that the function of poetry is to improve social morality is ..."

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