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What does rhetorical mean?

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Adjective
  1. Part of or similar to rhetoric, the use of language as a means to persuade.
  2. Not earnest, or presented only for the purpose of an argument.
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Cavell's writing displays the rhetorical features that we've seen in novelists and prose writers alike as they perform their thoughts.
Even on radio, their rhetorical style sounds windy, verbose, addicted to polysyllables for their own sake.
But there's not much you can do about yahoos or rhetorical hooligans but keep your own head on straight and let them chatter.
If the debate wrap-up is any indication, the other contenders are not going to go down without a serious rhetorical fight.
Some people sneer at a metaphorical reading of scripture and Tolkien himself was opposed to allegory as a rhetorical form.
He also engages in that time-tested rhetorical device, the ad hominem attack, through an anastrophe.

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