Classical rhetoric for the modern student
Widely used in advanced composition and writing courses, Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student discusses the three vital components of classical rhetoric--argument, arrangement, and style--bringing these elements to life and demonstrating their effective use in yesterday's and today's...
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Oxford University Press
1999
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Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction: Rhetorical analysis of a magazine ad
- Homer: "The envoys plead with Achilles"
- A brief explanation of classical rhetoric
- The three kinds of persuasive discourse
- The relevance and importance of rhetoric for our times
- II. Discovery of Arguments
- Formulating a thesis
- The three modes of persuasion
- The appeal to reason
- Principles of definition
- Other methods of definition
- The syllogism
- The enthymeme
- The example
- The fallacies
- The ethical appeal
- The emotional appeal
- The Topics
- The common topics
- special topics
- "Looking for an argument" / Manuel Bilsky, McCrea Hazlett, Robert E. Streeter, and Richard M. Weaver
- "A plan for teaching rhetorical invention" / Richard L. Larson
- External Aids to Invention
- Biograhy
- Books of Quotations and Concordances
- Biblical Concordances
- Indexes to Periodicals
- Other periodical indexes
- dictionaries
- Other specialized dictionaries
- Bibliographies
- Some bibliographical guides to various disciplines
- Annual bibliographies
- Syntopicon
- An illustration of the use of the search strategy
- Readings
- "The obligation to endure" / Rachel Carson
- Socrates' apology
- Analysis of the topics in "Socrates' apology"
- Obituary of Katharine Sergeant White
- An analysis of the topics in Katherine Sergeant White's obituary
- "The Federalist, No. 10" / James Madison
- "The argument of Madison's 'Federalist, No. 10'" / Mark Ashin
- "Letter to a noble lord" / Edmund Burke
- "Science and culture" / Thomas Henry Huxley
- "Literature and science" / Matthew Arnold
- III. Arrangement of Material
- The parts of a discourse
- Introduction
- Statement of fact
- Confirmation
- Refutation
- Conclusion
- Concluding remarks on arrangement
- Readings
- "Planet of the Year" / Thomas A. Sancton
- Analysis of the arrangement in Thomas A. Sancton's "Planet of the Year"
- "Letter from Birmingham jail" / Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Analysis of the arrangements of "Letter from Birmingham jail
- "Civil disobedience" / Henry David Thoreau
- IV. Style
- Grammatical competence
- Choice of diction
- An adequate vocabulary
- Purity, propriety, and precision of diction
- Composition of the sentence
- Study of style
- Kind of diction
- Length of sentences
- Kinds of sentences
- Variety of sentence patterns
- Sentence euphony
- Articulation of sentences
- Figures of speech
- Paragraphing
- A student report on a study of style
- Figures of speech
- The schemes
- The tropes
- Concluding remarks on the figures of speech
- Imitation
- Testimonies about the value of imitation
- "How the French boy learns to write" / Rollo Walter Brown
- Exercises in imitation
- Readings
- "Critical examination of the style of Mr. Addison in No. 411 of the Spectator" / Hugh Blair
- "Inaugural address" / John F. Kennedy
- "John F. Kennedy's Innaugural Address" / The Editors of the New Yorker
- A paragraph by Virginia Woolf to be analyzed for style
- An analysis of the style of the paragraph by Virginia Woolf
- Analysis of style as persuasion in the "Letter from Birmingham jail" / Richard P. Fulkerson
- V. The Progymnasmata
- A sequence of assignments
- VI. A survey of rhetoric
- Classical rhetorics
- Rhetoric during the middle ages
- Some continental rhetoricans
- English vernacular rhetorics of the 16th Century
- English rhetorics of the 17th Century
- English rhetorics of the 18th Century
- Rhetoric in the 19th and 20th Centuries.