Look up: rhetorical

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   rhetorical
   [adj] - of or relating to rhetoric 2. [adj] - concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking
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   rhetorical
   intention of a speaker to produce a text with a given effect;in PAULINE goals act as intermediaries between,on the one hand,the speaker`s interpersonal goals and other pragmatic aspects of the conversation,and,on the other hand,the syntactic decisions a text producer has to make.Rhetorical goals achieve their results by causing characteristic stylistic effects on the text Category: General ...
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   Rhetorical
   Rhe·tor'ic·al adjective [ Latin rhetoricus , Greek ............. See Rhetoric .] Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish. « They permit him to leave their poetical taste ungratified, provided that he gratifies their rhetorical sense.» < ...
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   rhetorical
   adjective of or relating to rhetoric; `accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested`- W.A.White; `the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation`- Lewis Mumford
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   rhetorical
   adjective concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; `a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply`
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   Rhetorical
   • (a.) Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.
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   rhetorical
   the poet asks a question without expecting to learn anything from the response, or to pose any difficulty for the reader, the answer being something that the poet already implies and the reader infers.
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