rhetorical

the rhetorical ornamentation of text.

repetition is a common rhetorical device.

a speech punctuated by rhetorical pauses.

a speech full of rhetorical flourishes

The writer showed great rhetorical skill.

the rhetorical commitment of the government to give priority to primary education.

Her queries were rhetorical,and best ignored.

aggrandise, amplify, bombastic, grandiloquent, grandiose, hyperbole, rhetorical, turgid.

Most readers are likely to lose interest when he descends into the realms of rhetorical terminology.

signed her name with a distinctive flourish; a long speech with many rhetorical flourishes.

Besides I"m discussing that notional means configurable characteristic phraseological function and rhetorical characteristic of word of description.

The rhetorical device-pun intentionally uses homophone (phonogram) and polysemous words which can possible generate equivocality in order to punningly express what the speaker is really driving at.

If I am rhetorical it is because Stroeve was rhetorical.

And the rhetorical battle obscures important areas of agreement.

Sorry! I thought that was, uh, rhetorical.

And so far the City- bashing has been mainly rhetorical.

I'm sorry, I thought your questions were purely rhetorical.

STEVE CARELL: That was a rhetorical question, Darryl.

The milk people don't have a patent on simple rhetorical questions!

There's the audience in rhetorical arguments.

Rhetorical purpose questions are similar, because they also ask for information not explicitly stated.

So narrative techniques, rhetorical devices, narrative devices, stylistic devices, poetic devices, and literary terms.