Sentence examples for rhetorical exercises from inspiring English sources

You have to devote a good portion of that time to a series of required rhetorical exercises: You have to thank your introducer for that generous introduction.

To these scholars, the book reads like one of the rhetorical exercises common in the imperial period, in which a student offered advice to some famous historical figure.

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthologia Hellēnikē, collection of about 3,700 Greek epigrams, songs, epitaphs, and rhetorical exercises, mostly in elegiac couplets, that can be dated from as early as the 7th century bce to as late as 1000 ce.

Broadly speaking, the first half of this period exhibits a considerable amount of biographical activity, of which much has been lost; such fragments as remain of the rest largely funeral elegies and rhetorical exercises depicting ideal types of character or behaviour suggest that from a literary point of view the loss is not grievous.

It includes what seem to be rhetorical exercises (for example, pieces in praise of smoke and dust, and sleep) written when Marcus was still in his 20s, an exchange about the value (or not) of rhetoric to philosophy written soon after Marcus became Emperor, and throughout, personal information, frequently concerning illnesses, births, and deaths in the family.

Or will they find themselves longing for the good old days, when Klosterman favored detailed analyses of "The Real World" over weighty rhetorical exercises?

This is a rhetorical exercise, of course.

Such argumentation reduces philosophical inquiry to a rhetorical exercise.

It was, I thought, a startlingly skillful political and rhetorical exercise, delivered with stern energy.

I also watched the trailer for Kevin Can Wait in preparation for this rhetorical exercise.

A piece of writing is not simply a "take" on something, but a rhetorical exercise in pace, rhythm, tone, texture and voice.