All 10 Uses of
rhetoric
in
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- We're more of the blood, love and rhetoric school.†
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
- 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.†
Act 1
- No rhetoric.†
Act 1
- GUIL: Was that rhetoric?†
Act 1
- ROS: Rhetoric!†
Act 1
- ROS: Six rhetorical and two repetition, leaving nineteen, of which we answered fifteen.†
Act 2
- 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
Definition:
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(rhetoric) the use of (or study of using) words to make a point -- typically implying skillful useeditor's notes: 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.