rhetoric (n.)
- affectation
- articulateness
- bluster
- bombast
- composition
- convolution
- declamation
- dialect
- diction
- elocution
- eloquence
- exaggeration
- expression
- expressiveness
- fashion
- felicitousness
- felicity
- flashiness
- flatulence
- flatulency
- forensics
- formulation
- fulsomeness
- fustian
- garishness
- gasconade
- gaudiness
- glibness
- grammar
- grandiloquence
- grandiosity
- homiletics
- idiom
- inflation
- language
- lecturing
- locution
- loftiness
- long-windedness
- luridness
- magniloquence
- manner
- mannerism
- meaningfulness
- meretriciousness
- mode
- oratory
- ostentation
- parlance
- peculiarity
- phrase
- phraseology
- phrasing
- pomposity
- pompousness
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- prolixity
- puffery
- pyrotechnics
- rant
- rhapsody
- rodomontade
- sensationalism
- sesquipedality
- showiness
- slickness
- smoothness
- speaking
- speech
- speechmaking
- strain
- style
- talk
- tortuosity
- tortuousness
- trick
- tumidity
- tumidness
- turgidity
- usage
- vein
- verbiage
- verbosity
- vividness
- way
- windiness
- wordiness
- wording
For rhetoric, he could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope.
Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric,
That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato. . . . To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.
Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric,
That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
