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Encyclopedia > Political rhetoric

Political rhetoric, often just "rhetoric", refers to political claims and statements that are hyperbole, with little substance.


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Rhetoric - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5192 words)
As such, rhetoric is said to flourish in open and democratic societies with rights of free speech, free assembly, and political enfranchisement for some portion of the population.
Rhetoric thus evolved as an important art, one that provided the orator with the forms, means, and strategies of persuading an audience of the correctness of the orator's arguments.
A Spaniard, he was appointed in 1523 to the Lectureship of Rhetoric at Oxford by Cardinal Wolsey, and was entrusted by Henry VIII to be one of the tutors of Mary.
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