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"'''rhetoric'''" = "the art of use of language for persuasion"
"'''rhetoric'''" = "the art of use of language for persuasion"


* from Greek ''rhētorikētekhnē''  for "art of an orator,"
* see page entry for [[Rhetoric]]
** ''rhētōr'' = "speaker, orator" or "orator in public."
 
** ''rhesis'' = "speech"
== Rhetorical devices list ==
** ''rhema'' = "word, phrase" or
*** from [[PIE proto-Indo-European language|PIE]] '''*wre-tor-''' for " "that which is spoken" (from root '''*were'''- "to speak")


=== ad hominem ===
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