Rhetoric vs Locution - What's the difference?
rhetoric | locution |
The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.
Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.
A phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals through repeated usage.
The use of a word or phrase in an unusual or specialized way.
* 1992 , Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights (page 299)
A supernatural revelation where a religious figure, statue or icon speaks, usually to a saint.
As nouns the difference between rhetoric and locution
is that rhetoric is the art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade while locution is a phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals through repeated usage.As an adjective rhetoric
is .rhetoric
English
(wikipedia rhetoric)Alternative forms
* rhetorick (obsolete)Adjective
Noun
- It’s only so much rhetoric .
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "rhetoric": political, legal, visual, classical, ancient, violent, empty, inflammatory, hateful, heated, fiery, vitriolic, angry, overheated, extreme.Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* rhetorical * rhetoricianSee also
* preterition *Anagrams
*locution
English
(wikipedia locution)Noun
(en noun)- The television show host is widely recognized for his all-too-common locutions .
- So it cannot be supposed that promisings differ from other word-givings in that a word-giver makes a promise only if he or she uses the locution "I promise".
