Preposition: in

• nature: Some of the questions are simple and direct whilst others are rhetorical in nature.

Modifies a noun

• flourish: There is a total absence of self pity, rhetorical flourishes, emotional appeals.

• trope: All rhetorical tropes exist toward such elucidation of thought.

• gesture: History, rhetorical gestures, historical veracity, textual accuracy.

• device: Using rhetorical devices Such devices give a lecture zest.

• question: Instead of asking the rhetorical question " why do they hang about there?

• criticism: This year I am preparing a rhetorical criticism on the systematic rape in Bosnia.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: Which means we may be witnessing the advent of the world's first purely rhetorical technology.

• merely: Voluntary Trust Fund Any initiatives beyond the merely rhetorical are likely to cost money.

• highly: Weiß convincingly shows that Paul's text is highly rhetorical in nature.

• not: These are not rhetorical questions; I would like to have answers from anyone who knows -- by email, please.

• largely: Posted on 01-May-05 at 8:59 pm | Permalink AJE said: Jim, Dave - for me the issue is largely rhetorical.

• somewhat: The answer to my somewhat rhetorical questions above is Brian Stein.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: Right up to the 1950s their boasted efficiency remained more rhetorical than real.