In a presidential election year, the strategy gives Obama a rhetorical tool to defend his Pentagon budget-cutting choices.

On the ballad, using a mute as well, he made every note sound perfectly placed; his solo had all the rhetorical tools of deep passion.

But we need to look closely at such a rhetorical tool.

High-minded anger can be a great rhetorical tool, precisely because it is genuine, passionate and often unscripted.

And sometimes it is a convenient rhetorical tool.

Typifying is a prominent rhetorical tool employed by moral entrepreneurs when attempting to define social problems.

The leaders are all in favor, of course, but to date have seemed to lack the political and rhetorical tools needed to rouse public opinion behind them.

Anaphora, the repetition of a phrase at the beginning of sentences, is a rhetorical tool employed throughout the speech.

Until the rise of hip-hop, black music, often derived from the gospel church, displayed a mastery of the rhetorical tools of passion.

He has all the rhetorical tools to make a performance seem emotional, and he can take a tune apart, virtuosically.