how to pronounce rhetoric

/ˈɹɛt.əɹ.ɪk/

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rhetoric is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of rhetoric in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… grim anti-islamic rhetoric around it …”

meaning of rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of using language effectively to persuade people.

rhetoric frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word rhetoric occurs in english on average 9.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics rhetoric can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that rhetoric can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;