New posts in rhetoric

Where did the practice of using quotation marks to discredit an opponent ("scare-quotes") come from?

rhetoric quotation-marks logic

"Freedom is slavery" and "Ignorance is strength" - What kind of rhetorical strategy is this?

rhetoric figures-of-speech

Does “Turtles all the way down” mean endless continuation / exercise similar to ‘peeling onions,’’ or does it represent sophism?

meaning phrases phrase-usage metaphors rhetoric

Usage and example of the word “litotes”

word-usage rhetoric litotes

Term for allowing implausible scenario in argument

terminology rhetoric rhetorical-devices

The same word used to define itself [duplicate]

single-word-requests rhetoric

Term for anticipating counterarguments and rebutting them

single-word-requests loanwords rhetoric greek rhetorical-devices

What is the form of rhetoric called which involves posing questions and answering them oneself?

single-word-requests rhetoric

definition and usage for whipsaw?

word-usage dictionaries rhetoric rhetorical-devices argument-structure

What does "voice" mean in the context of written language?

meaning ambiguity writing rhetoric

Placing the object of an infinitive before it instead of after it

verbs word-order legalese rhetoric

What do you call the rhetoric strategy of purposely writing a paragraph that no one can understand?

single-word-requests meaning-in-context terminology rhetoric

What do you call the exploitation of ambiguous statements to form a logical argument?

word-choice phrases rhetoric

Name for rhetorical technique of abandoning commas in a long list?

commas rhetoric

"You could do worse than [x]"

phrases idioms rhetoric

Is there a term for “neutral” words whose connotations are limited to being either positive or negative?

semantics linguistics rhetoric

Term for mentioning X by saying "I will not say X" [duplicate]

terminology rhetoric

Did the "We shall fight on the beaches" speech mainly use words from Old English? If so, why?

etymology old-english rhetoric

What is a word for a question that has no answer because it is seemingly invalid?

single-word-requests rhetoric

Is there a term for the grammatical/rhetorical construction of "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named"?

single-word-requests grammar relative-clauses rhetoric