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Search phrase: rhetoric

Plays

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As You Like ItAYL V.i.40For it is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured outFor it is a figure in Rhetoricke, that drink being powr'd out
Love's Labour's LostLLL II.i.215By the heart's still rhetoric disclosed with eyesBy the hearts still rhetoricke, disclosed with eyes)
Love's Labour's LostLLL III.i.61Sweet smoke of rhetoric!Sweete smoke of Rhetorike,
Love's Labour's LostLLL IV.iii.58Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,Did not the heauenly Rhetoricke of thine eye,
Love's Labour's LostLLL IV.iii.237Fie, painted rhetoric! O, she needs it not!Fie painted Rethoricke, O she needs it not,
The Taming of the ShrewTS I.i.35And practise rhetoric in your common talk,And practise Rhetoricke in your common talke,

Poems

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The Passionate PilgrimPP.3.1 Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye, DId not the heauenly Rhetorike of thine eie,
SonnetsSonn.82.10 What strained touches rhetoric can lend, What strained touches Rhethorick can lend,

Glossary

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artrhetorical art, verbal artistry
figurefigure of speech, device, piece of rhetoric
flourish[of language] eloquence, fine words, rhetorical embellishment
liberal artsthe trivium [grammar, logic, rhetoric] and quadrivium [arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy]
periodrhetorical pause, sentence ending, termination
perorationrhetorical speech, oratorical discourse
rhetoricoratory, flowery language
rope-trick[unclear meaning] possibly a malapropism of ‘rhetoric’ or ‘rope-rhetoric’ [i.e. bombastic rhetoric]
word(plural) empty rhetoric, vain talk

Thesaurus

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art, rhetoricalart
embellishment, rhetoricalflourish
pause, rhetoricalperiod
rhetoricliberal arts
rhetoric, emptyword
rhetoric, piece offigure
rhetorical artart
rhetorical embellishmentflourish
rhetorical pauseperiod
rhetorical speechperoration
speech, rhetoricalperoration

Themes and Topics

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Responses...lish of responding to another person or rhetorically to oneself yes expressing such not...
Frequently Encountered Words (FEW)...l v ii 410 [berowne to rosaline of his rhetorical words] i do forswear them 3 deny rep...

Words Families

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Word FamilyWord Family GroupWords
RHETORICBASICrhetoric n

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