rhetorical

speechmaking

Delivering formal spoken addresses

• elocutionFormal speaking skill
• declamationForceful, theatrical speaking
• orationFormal public speech

discourse · public speaking · address · homiletics · sermonizing · exhortation · harangue · diatribe · lectern · podium

metaphor

Implied identity comparison

• simileComparison via "as"
• hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
• personificationAttributing humanity to non-humans

irony · oxymoron · paradox · synecdoche · metonymy · allegory · euphemism · anaphora · epistrophe · chiasmus

eloquence

Persuasive verbal grace

• fluencySmooth linguistic command
• expressivenessAbility to convey emotion
• grandiloquencePompous, extravagant language

silver-tongued · articulate · diction · perspicuity · lucidity · cogency · panache · finesse · poise · wit

convincing

Able to persuade

• compellingPowerfully engaging or persuasive
• argumentativeInclined to dispute
• cogentClearly logical and convincing

influential · effective · forceful · swaying · manipulative · propagandistic · demagoguery · sophistry · casuistry · spin

argumentation

Systematic reasoning process

• dialecticLogical argument through opposition
• disputationFormal argumentative exchange
• forensicsScientific crime-scene analysis

polemics · refutation · rebuttal · counterargument · cross-examination · deliberation · stasis · topoi · concession · apologia

• question tonescurious, skeptical, doubtful, probing, inquisitive
• writing stylesformal, informal, minimalism, maximalism, concise
• speech registersformal, informal, casual, colloquial, vernacular
• questionsquestion, inquiry, questions, query, interrogatives
• Language Wordsverbal, oral, written, spoken, fluent
• Overblown Wordspompous, bombastic, grandiose, inflated, overblown