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 5.1.1.1 Simple Sentences 5.1.1.2 Compound Sentences 5.1.1.3 Complex Sentences 5.1.1.4 Compound-complex Sentences 5.1.2 Functional Classification 5.1.2.1 Declarative Sentences 5.1.2.2 Interrogative Sentences 5.1.2.3 Imperative Sentences 5.1.2.4 Exclamatory.Sentences 5.1.3 Rhetorical Classification 5.1.3.1 Loose Sentences 5.1.3.2 Periodic Sentences 5.1.3.3 Balanced Sentences 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 11.5.1.1 Light Irony 11.5.1.2 Heavy 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
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