rhetorical
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“It’s a wild and crazy ride,” said Jennifer Mercieca, a political historian and communications professor at Texas A&M and author of “Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2024
Lynn Greenky, professor emeritus of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University, offers some examples in The Conversation.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2024
I asked Jennifer Mercieca, a historian of political rhetoric at Texas A&M and the author of "Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump," for her thoughts about Trump’s language in recent fundraising emails.
From Salon • Oct. 16, 2023
Rhetorical question: questions intended to make a point rather than to get an answer.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Rhetorical declarations on platforms would have been wholly out of place.
From Before the War by Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount
Vocabulary lists containing rhetorical
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 1
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade 11)
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