Rhetoric

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BoD – Books on Demand, 2020 M09 22 - 384 pages
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
ix
PART
xii
COAPTER PAGE 1 General Expression of Thought and Feeling
17
The Origin and Use of Language
21
How to acquire the Knowledge of Words
27
Short apd expressive Words 80
37
How to obtain a good Vocabulary
45
Discrimination in the Use of Words
49
Sentences
199
Loose Sentences and Periods
202
Interrogations Exclamations Climax Repetition
208
The Melody of Sentences
213
Style
220
Idioms and Proverbs
228
How to acquire a good Style
237
Style adapted to produce Emotion
244

Faults to be avoided
53
Further Directions upon the Choice of Words
60
Further Directions continued
66
PART II
75
Tropcs
77
Comparisons
87
Allusions
95
Metaphors
102
Antitheses
113
Allegories and Fables
122
Hyperboles or Extravagant Expressions 181
131
Irony
138
Personification and Prosopopcia
145
Apostrophe
156
Sermocinatio or Dialogue
162
Vision
165
Wit
173
Witcontinued
180
COMPOSITION AND STYLE
187
CHAPTER PAGE I Combinations of Words
189
Propositions
193
Taste and its Cultivation
251
Style modified by the Nature of the Production
256
Addresses Lectures Orations Sermons
260
Epistolary Composition
268
Historical Writing
274
Representative Writing and Fiction
279
Poetry
286
Species of Poetry
302
PART IV
309
Nature of Invention and some general Rules
311
Invention in Description
316
Invention in Narrations 823
323
Invention in abstract Subjects 829
333
Invention in miscellaneous Productions
343
PART V
355
Propriety of the Study of Elocution
361
The mechanical Elements of Elocution 855
363
Intellectual and moral Elements of Elocution 866
366
INDEX 875
375
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