1. (Rhetoric) the study of the technique of using language effectively. 2. (Rhetoric) the art of using speech to persuade, influence, or please; oratory. 3. excessive use of ornamentation and contrivance in spoken or written discourse; bombast.4. speech or discourse that pretends to significance but lacks true meaning: all the politician says is mere rhetoric.. (Rhetoric) the art of using speech to persuade, influence, or please; oratory. 3. excessive use of ornamentation and contrivance in spoken or written discourse; bombast. 4. speech or discourse that pretends to significance but lacks true meaning: all the politician says is mere rhetoric.
Confidence votes 76. Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck were the founders of the American chain of department stores, Sears, Roebuck and Company, in the late 19th century. Richard Sears learned telegraphy and got a job with the railroad, eventually becoming a station agent.
In 1925, Sears and Roebuck opened their first retail store and by 1973, the company they founded had built the largest building in America: the Sears Tower. By the 1990s, Sears wasn't the iconic mail-order brand that it once was.