You may not care for the visual, audio and rhetorical techniques, but this is television for a mass audience.
Recognizing the obvious rhetorical technique, K'mpec was not among them.
Americans can try to copy him, but they don't understand his rhetorical technique.
The term for this rhetorical technique is meiosis, a drastic understatement of the situation.
"He has an effective rhetorical technique," the Vulcan murmured.
White is very good on Lincoln's rhetorical techniques.
Take 6 Blue Note Emotion in music is a matter of rhetorical technique, and each musical form has its tricks to show deep feeling.
"White is very good on Lincoln's rhetorical techniques," Max Byrd said here in 2002.
The sophists' rhetorical techniques were extremely useful for any young nobleman looking for public office.