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Rhetoric vs Wordcraft - What's the difference?

rhetoric | wordcraft |

Wordcraft is a synonym of rhetoric.



As nouns the difference between rhetoric and wordcraft

is that rhetoric is the art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade while wordcraft is skill with words; crafty or clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.

As an adjective rhetoric

is synonym of lang=en.

rhetoric

English

(wikipedia rhetoric)

Alternative forms

* rhetorick (obsolete)

Adjective

    • Noun

  • The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.
  • Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.
    • 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 * rhetorician

    See also

    * preterition *

    Anagrams

    *

    wordcraft

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Skill]] with [[word, words; crafty or clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.
  • * 2000 , Deirdre N. McCloskey, How to be human: though an economist :
    • To identify a piece of speech in finance as rhetoric is not to damn it but to identify it as part of wordcraft .
  • * 1990 , J. P. Fokkelman, Narrative art and poetry in the books of Samuel: a full :
    • It is the key concept in Jakobson's fundamental recognition of the importance of repetition in wordcraft and occurs in his definition what is literary [...]
    English words suffixed with -craft