1. (in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
2. the art or science of all specialized literary uses of language in prose or verse, including the figures of speech.
3. the study of the effective use of language.
4. the ability to use language effectively.
5. the art of prose in general as opposed to verse.
6. the art of making persuasive speeches; oratory.
7. (in classical oratory) the art of influencing the thought and conduct of an audience.
8. (in older use) a work on rhetoric. - Nevermind.
"Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous: His offers of compromise were mere rhetoric." - Hm. In that case I'm a walking...thing..of rhetoricals.
Man that shit was rhetorical. ha ha. My next rhetorical question was when you were gonna get in here and post something funny that challanges the perspective minds of the bovine masses that populate this gloomy orb.