| Main Entry: | rhetoric |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness; long speech |
Synonyms: |
address, balderdash, big talk, bombast, composition, discourse, elocution, eloquence, flowery language, fustian, grandiloquence, hot air, hyperbole, magniloquence, oration, oratory, pomposity, rant, verbosity |
Antonyms: |
conciseness |
| Main Entry: | rhetoric |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
allegorical, anapestic, dactylic, descriptive, dialectic, elliptical, humorous, hyperbolic, iambic, interrogative, ironical, metaphorical, narrative, ornamental, prosaic, rhythmical, sarcastic, symbolic, synonymous, tautologic, trochaic, witty
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| Main Entry: | diction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | style of speech; articulation |
Synonyms: |
command of language, delivery, elocution, eloquence, enunciation, expression, fluency, gift of gab, inflection, intonation, language, line, lingo, locution, oratory, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pronunciation, rhetoric, usage, verbalism, verbiage, vocabulary, wordage, wording |
| Main Entry: | discourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dialogue; dissertation |
Synonyms: |
address, article, chat, communication, conversation, converse, descant, discussion, disquisition, essay, gabfest, homily, huddle, lecture, memoir, monograph, monologue, oration, paper, rhetoric, sermon, speaking, speech, talk, thesis, tractate, treatise, utterance, verbalization |
Antonyms: |
quiet, silence |
| Main Entry: | elocution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | articulation |
Synonyms: |
declamation, delivery, diction, dramatic, eloquence, enunciation, expression, locution, oratory, pronunciation, public speaking, reading, rhetoric, speech, speechcraft, speechmaking, utterance, voice culture, voice production |
Antonyms: |
inarticulation, mispronouncement |
| Main Entry: | eloquence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skillful way with words |
Synonyms: |
ability, appeal, articulation, command of language, delivery, diction, dramatic, expression, expressiveness, expressivity, facility, fervor, flow, fluency, force, forcefulness, gift of gab, grandiloquence, loquacity, meaningfulness, mellifluousness, oration, oratory, passion, persuasiveness, poise, power, rhetoric, spirit, style, vigor, vivacity, volubility, wit, wittiness |
Antonyms: |
dullness, inarticulateness |
| Main Entry: | figure of speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turn of expression |
Synonyms: |
adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device, comparison, conceit, device, echoism, ellipsis, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, ornament, oxymoron, parable, paradox, parallel, personification, proteron, rhetoric, sarcasm, satire, simile, synecdoche, trope, tropology, turn of phrase, understatement, way of speaking |
| Main Entry: | oratory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public speaking |
Synonyms: |
articulation, declamation, diction, elocution, eloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric, speaking, speech, speechifying, speechmaking |
| Main Entry: | rant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | yelling, raving |
Synonyms: |
bluster, bombast, diatribe, fustian, harangue, oration, philippic, rhapsody, rhetoric, rodomontade, tirade, vociferation |
Antonyms: |
calm, quiet |
| Main Entry: | speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formal talk to audience |
Synonyms: |
address, allocution, appeal, bombast, chalk talk, commentary, debate, declamation, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, eulogy, exhortation, harangue, homily, invocation, keynote, lecture, opus, oration, oratory, panegyric, paper, parlance, parley, pep talk, pitch, prelection, recitation, rhetoric, salutation, sermon, spiel*, stump, tirade, valedictory |
Antonyms: |
listening |