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Tables of Contents for Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
 
I/ Introduction
1
26
Rhetorical Analysis of a Magazine Ad
2
4
Homer
"The Envoys Plead with Achilles"
6
9
Analysis of "The Envoys Plead with Achillies
9
6
A Brief Explanation of Classical Rhetoric
15
2
The Five Canons of Rhetoric
17
6
The Three Kinds of Persuasive Discourse
23
1
The Relevance and Importance of Rhetoric for Our Times
24
3
II/ Discovery of Arguments
27
229
Formulating a Thesis
27
4
The Three Modes of Persuasion
31
53
The Appeal to Reason
32
1
Principles of Definition
33
2
Other Methods of Definition
35
3
The Syllogism
38
14
The Enthymeme
52
8
The Example
60
2
The Fallacies
62
9
The Ethical Appeal
71
6
The Emotional Appeal
77
7
The Topics
84
46
The Commonn Topics
87
33
Special Topics
120
10
Manuel Bilsky
McCrea Hazlett
Robert E. Streeter
Richard M. Weaver
"Looking for an Argument"
130
7
Richard L. Larson
"A Plan for Teaching Rhetorical Invention"
137
4
External Aids to Invention
141
33
Biography
143
4
Books of Quotations and Concordances
147
3
Biblical Concordances
150
1
Indexes to Periodicals
151
2
Other Periodical Indexes
153
4
Handbooks
157
5
Dictionaries
162
5
Other Specialized Dictionaries
167
1
Bibliographies
167
2
Some Bibliographical Guides to Various Disciplines
169
1
Annual Bibliographies
170
1
Syntopicon
170
4
An Illustration of the Use of the Search Strategy
174
10
Readings
184
1
Rachel Carson
"The Obligation to Endure"
185
10
Topical Analysis of Rachel Carson's "The Obligation to Endure"
190
5
Socrates' Apology
195
14
Analysis of the Topics in "Socrates' Apology"
204
5
Obituary of Katharine Sergeant White
209
5
An Analysis of the Topics in Katherine sergeant White's Obiturary
211
3
James Madison
"The Federalist, No. 10"
214
16
Mark Ashin
"The Argument of Madison's Federalist, No. 10'''
220
10
Edmund Burke
"Letter to a Noble Lord"
230
7
Thomas Henry Huxley
"Science and Culture
237
8
Matthew Arnold
"Literature and Science"
245
11
III/ Arrangement of Material
256
81
The Parts of a Discourse
259
32
Introduction
260
10
Statement of Fact
270
6
Confirmation
276
2
Refutation
278
5
Conclusion
283
8
Concluding Remarks on Arrangement
291
1
Readings
292
1
Thomas A. Sancton
"Planet of the Year"
292
9
Analysis of the Arrangement in Thomas A. Sancton's "Planet of the Year"
297
4
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Letter from Birmingham Jail"
301
19
Analysis of the Arrangements of "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
315
5
Henry David Thoreau
"Civil Disobedience"
320
17
IV/ Style
337
147
Grammatical Competence
339
2
Choice of Direction
341
13
An Adequate Vocabulary
341
4
Purity, Propriety, and Precision of Direction
345
9
Composition of the Sentence
354
5
Study of Style
359
18
Kind of Diction
361
1
Length of Sentences
361
1
Kinds of Sentences
361
1
Variety of Sentence Patterns
362
1
Sentence Euphony
363
2
Articulation of Sentences
365
2
Figures of Speech
367
1
Paragraphing
367
2
A Student Report on a Study of Style
369
8
Figures of Speech
377
34
The Schemes
380
16
The Tropes
396
13
Concluding Remarks on the Figures of Speech
409
2
Imitation
411
37
Testimonies about the Value of Imitation
413
6
Rollo Walter Brown
"How the French Boy Learns to Write"
419
5
Exercises in Imitation
424
24
Readings
448
1
Hugh Blair
"Critical Examination of the Style of Mr. Addison in No. 411 of The Spectator"
448
11
John F. Kennedy
"Inagural Address"
459
13
The Editors of the New Yorker: "John F. Kennedy's Inaguaral Address"
461
2
Analysis of the Style of John F. Kennedy's "Inagural Address"
463
9
A Paragraph by Virginia Woolf To Be Analyzed for Style
472
6
An Analysis of the Style of the Paragraph by Virginia Woolf
474
4
Analysis of Style as Persuation in the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Richard P. Fulkerson
478
6
V/ The Progymnasmata
484
5
A Sequence of Assignments
485
4
VI/ A Survey of Rhetoric
489
55
Classical Rhetorics
489
8
Rhetoric During the Middle Ages
497
2
Some Continental Rhetoricians
499
2
English Vernacular Rhetorics of the Sixteenth Century
501
4
English Rhetorics of the Seventeenth Century
505
6
English Rhetorics of the Eighteenth Century
511
6
Rhetoric in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
517
27
Bibliography
544
12
Index
556