Sentence examples for rhetorical term from inspiring English sources

("Litotes" is a rhetorical term for defining something with a double negative).

Pleonasm is the rhetorical term for the use of more than one word where one word would be more than enough.

It was a rhetorical term, a counter-meme for the projective "meme" (in an older sense) already commonly used both online and off.

Such faltering could be an instance of anacoluthon (a change of syntax within a sentence), or aposiopesis (a rhetorical term for an unfinished thought), or maybe agrammatism (a form of expressive aphasia).

Lemkin played a part in the American war crimes team at Nuremberg and lobbied for genocide to be included on the roster of charges, but, although he did succeed in persuading prosecutors to use it as a rhetorical term, it did not become a legal one.

Shakespeare constantly reflects on the problem of synecdoche in his plays, a rhetorical term meaning "the part representing the whole".

"Massacre" and "Slaughter" are rhetorical terms.

In rhetorical terms, that's not a bad spiel.

Churchill saw war in rhetorical terms, as pageantry and drama, as though eloquence alone were enough.

Open a book of rhetorical terms, and you will meet a lot of gnarly looking Greek and Latin words.

Brown's first night in captivity established the rhetorical terms on which those fighting the war would try to deal with the humanity of their enemies.