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Apostrophic :: Apostrophic (a.) Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical..

Rhetorician :: Rhetorician (n.) An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer..

Forensic :: Forensic (a.) Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes..

Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force..

Froth :: Froth (n.) Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought..

Declaim :: Declaim (v. i.) To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant..

Imagery :: Imagery (n.) Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

Ramist :: Ramist (n.) A follower of Pierre Rame, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians..

Permiss :: Permiss (n.) A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing is committed to the decision of one's opponent.

Declaim :: Declaim (v. i.) To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week..

Bastile Bastille :: Bastile Bastille (n.) The Bastille, formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison..

Florid :: Florid (a.) Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence..

Humanity :: Humanity (n.) The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters..

Declamation :: Declamation (n.) The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students..

Tropical :: Tropical (n.) Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.

Flourish :: Flourish (n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit..

Rhetorician :: Rhetorician (n.) A teacher of rhetoric.

Topic :: Topic (n.) One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory..

Rhetoric :: Rhetoric (n.) Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling..

Deliberative :: Deliberative (n.) A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it..

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