When to Use Invective
On the other hand, invective is appropriate as a rhetorical tool in speechmaking, poetry, prose, and film if the intention is to insult or reflect strong negative emotion such as anger, disdain, and frustration. Invective may also be used to arouse the same negative emotion in the audience.
How do you use invective?
Invective in a Sentence ?
- The newspaper's invective of the novel really made the author angry.
- Because your invective hurt my feelings, I am going to stay away from you for a while.
- The politician's invective about his opponent caused him many votes in the election.
What is invective example?
Invective is harsh, abusive language, like "you dirty rotten scoundrel." I'm sure you can think of harsher and more obscene examples, but we won't get into them here. Invective comes from the Latin for "abusive." It kind of sounds like a harsh word, actually, with those sharp, dagger-like V's.
