RhetoricBoD – 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 |
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Allegory allusions ancient appear associations attention beautiful become body called CHAPTER character common comparison composition correct Definition described direct effect eloquent emotion employed English language examples exercise expression fact fall feeling figure force frequently give given hand idea illustrate impression instance Invention kind language learned less letter literally living material meaning metaphor mind moral nature never object observe once opinion orator original passion person Personification Poetry possible practice present productions proper reason represented requires Rhetoric rules says sense sentence short similar simply sometimes sound speak speaker specimens speech strong student style succession suggest taste thing thou thought tion tropes true truth uttered variety voice whole words writing written