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Disputation :: Disputation (v. i.) A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed.

Declamation :: Declamation (n.) Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation..

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

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..

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..

Amplification :: Amplification (n.) The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject..

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

Rhetorician :: Rhetorician (n.) One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.

Declaim :: Declaim (v. t.) To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.

Irrhetorical :: Irrhetorical (a.) Not rethorical.

Trivium :: Trivium (n.) The three liberal arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence..

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

Rhetoricate :: Rhetoricate (v. i.) To play the orator.

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..

Oratory :: Oratory (n.) The art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence.

Rethor :: Rethor (n.) A rhetorician; a careful writer.

Rhetorize :: Rhetorize (v. t.) To represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification..

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..

Rethoryke :: Rethoryke (n.) Rhetoric.

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