expressive style vs rhetoric

rhetoric vs expressive style

expressive style and rhetoric both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expressive style	Yes	No	No	No
rhetoric	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rhetoric is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, rhetoric is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than expressive style:

expressive style: a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
rhetoric: high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

Other hyponyms of expressive style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour, device, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, flatness, expression, formulation, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, headlinese, jargon, journalese, legalese, delivery, manner of speaking, speech, officialese, pathos, prose, coarseness, saltiness, self-expression, sesquipedality, terseness, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, verbosity, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	rhetoric (noun)
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period	study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
	using language effectively to please or persuade
	high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
	loud and confused and empty talk

Difference between expressive style and rhetoric

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