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Part One Chapter 1 What Is Rhetoric?
1.1 Rhetoric and Oratory
1.2 Connotation of Rhetoric
1.3 Definitions of Rhetoric
1.4 Five Assumptions
Exercises Chapter 2 Brief History of Western Rhetoric
2.1 Classical Rhetoric (5th c. B.C.-A.D. 5th c.)
2.1.1 Ancient Greece and Ancient Greek Democracy
2.1.2 Sophists and Their Practices of Rhetoric
2.1.3 Ancient Greek Rhetoricians and Their Theory
2.1.4 Roman Rhetoricians and Their Theory
2.2 Rhetoric in the Middle Ages (5th-14th c.)
2.3 Rhetoric in the Renaissance (15th-16th c.)
2.4 New Classical Rhetoric (17th-19th c.)
2.4.1 The Scientific Perspective
2.4.2 The Elocutionary Perspective
2.4.3 The Literary Perspective
2.5 Contemporary Rhetoric
2.6 Conclusion
Exercises Chapter 3 The Importance of Learning English Rhetoric
Exercises Part Two Chapter 4 Choice of Words
4.1 Use Suitable Words
4.2 Denotation and Connotation
4.3 General Words and Specific Words
4.4 Abstract Words and Concrete Words
4.5 Short Words and Long Words
Exercises Chapter 5 Choice of Sentences
5.1 Types of Sentences
5.1.1 Grammatical Classification
5.1.2 Functional Classification
5.1.3 Rhetorical Classification
5.2 Long and Short Sentences
5.2.1 Short Sentences
5.2.2 Long Sentences
5.2.3 Alternating Short and Long Sentences
Exercises Part Three Chapter 6 Introduction: Figures of Speech
6.1 What Is a Figure of Speech?
6.2 Why Are Figures of Speech Used?
6.3 The Classification of Figures of Speech
6.4 Use Figures of Speech in a Right Way
Exercises Chapter 7 Phonetic Figures of Speech
7.1 Alliteration
7.2 Assonance
7.3 Consonance
7.4 Onomatopoeia
7.5 Aposiopesis
7.6 Apostrophe
7.7 Pun
Exercises Chapter 8 Syntactic Figures of Speech (I)
8.1 Repetition
8.1.1 Immediate Repetition
8.1.2 Intermittent Repetition
8.2 Anaphora
8.3 Epiphora
8.4 Symploce
8.5 Anadiplosis
8.6 Parallelism
8.7 Antithesis
Exercises Chapter 9 Syntactic Figures of Speech (II)
9.1 Climax
9.2 Anticlimax
9.3 Syllepsis
9.4 Zeugma
9.5 Chiasmus
9.6 Asyndeton
9.7 Polysyndeton
9.8 Rhetorical question
Exercises Chapter 10 Semantic Figures of Speech
10.1 Simile
10.2 Metaphor
10.3 Metonymy
10.4 Synecdoche
10.5 Antonomasia
10.6 Personification
10.7 Parody
10.8 Synesthesia
10.9 Transferred Epithet
Exercises Chapter 11 Logical Figures of Speech
11.1 Allegory
11.2 Allusion
11.3 Hyperbole
11.4 Understatement
11.4.1 Litotes
11.4.2 Meiosis
11.4.3 Overtones
11.5 Irony
11.5.1 Verbal Irony
11.5.2 Situational Irony
11.6 Innuendo
11.7 Euphemism
11.8 Oxymoron
11.9 Analogy
11.10 Paradox
Exercises
Appendix A A General Test on Figures of Speech Appendix B Simplistic Definitions of Figures of Speech Bibliography Index