All 10 Uses

rhetoric
in
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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We're more of the blood, love and rhetoric school.†
Act 1

rhetoric = the use of (or study of using) words to make a point
PLAYER: They're hardly divisible, sir-well, I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood.†
Act 1
PLAYER: They're hardly divisible, sir-well, I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood.†
Act 1
PLAYER: They're hardly divisible, sir-well, I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood.†
Act 1
GUIL (low, wry rhetoric): Give us this day our daily mask.†
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No rhetoric.†
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GUIL: Was that rhetoric?†
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ROS: Rhetoric!†
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ROS: Six rhetorical and two repetition, leaving nineteen, of which we answered fifteen.†
Act 2

rhetorical = relating to the use of words to make a point
PLAYER: It's about a King and Queen....
GUIL: Escapism! What else?
PLAYER: Blood
GUIL: -Love and rhetoric.
Act 2 *

rhetoric = the use of words to make a point

Definitions:

(1) (rhetoric)
the use of (or study of using) words to make a point -- typically implying skillful use

Rhetoric is used with many connotations. "Effective rhetoric" has a positive connotation, If someone says something is "just rhetoric," they're implying that the words may make a good surface impression, but they are lacking in substance.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)