Manual of English Rhetoric

Andrew Dousa Hepburn

Wilson, Hinkle & Company, 1875 - English language - 268 pages

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 13
• Study of Models What to study How to study: 21
• SECT PAGE 148 Description Narration Exposition Argumentation 232: 24
• CHAPTER I: 27
• SECT PAGE 14 Determination of the Subject: 30
• The Title Rules for choosing: 33
• CHAPTER II: 34
• Meditation What included in?: 37
• Selection Result of the process: 39
• Systematic Meditation Topics Their utility: 40
• Reading as an aid to invention Method of Reading: 41
• CHAPTER III: 43
• Preparation of the Plan Organic Parts of a Discourse What contained in the Plan Necessity of preparing one: 44
• The laws of Disposition general and special: 46
• Contents of the Introduction Its structure When to be prepared: 48
• The Body of the Discourse: 49
• Two methods of communicating thought The Analytic The Synthetic: 50
• Comparative advantages of the two: 53
• General Rules for the Disposition of the Body of a Discourse: 54
• The Conclusion An essential part Qualities of: 55
• Transitions Essential qualities of How found: 56
• CHAPTER IV: 58
• Means of Amplification Enumeration Examples Causes and Effects Comparison Combination of several means Accessory ideas: 60
• Rules of Amplification: 63
• The Qualities of Prose Style: 66
• The English language as to power of expression: 72
• Present use Obsolete words Neologisms: 79
• Propriety Accuracy Congruity: 86
• Conclusion: 92
• Metaphor Three kinds of Its force Rules for its use: 98
• Allegory Parable Fable: 107
• Simile Different orders: 112
• Hyperbole Irony: 118
• The Structure of Sentences: 124
• 71: 130
• Precision 1 Tautology 2 Pleonasm 3 Verbosity: 142
• Exhortation On what does the power of moving the Pas: 149
• Announcing the Theme: 153
• SECT PAGE 85 The Middle Style: 160
• Application of the Principles of General Rhetoric: 161
• PART III: 162
• CHAPTER I: 163
• Difficulty of the art of Description: 164
• Disposition of details: 166
• Auxiliaries Rules of Expression: 167
• Mental states Characters General Characters: 169
• CHAPTER II: 171
• Selection of particulars: 172
• Disposition of the incidents: 173
• Parts of a Narration: 174
• CHAPTER III: 176
• Verbal explication: 177
• Division The Principle of Division Laws of: 179
• A scheme of Exposition of a Notion: 183
• Invention of Arguments: 190
• Selection of Arguments: 197
• Scheme and Topics of an Argument: 203
• Requisites of a Dialogue: 208
• Use of Figurative language: 214
• 139: 222
• Division of History Universal History Special History: 230
• 145: 231
• sions depend?: 236
• 150: 238
• Oratorical Disposition Parts of an Oratorical Discourse: 239
• Exordium Sources of: 240
• Qualities of an Exordium: 242
• Body of the Speech Announcement of the Theme An nouncement of the Plan: 244
• Special rules for arranging the Arguments and Motives: 245
• Peroration Qualities of: 250
• Recapitulation: 251
• Characteristics of Oratorical Style 1 Direct Address 2: 253
• The Simple or Lower Style: 260
• Judicial or Forensic Oratory Compared with Political: 264
• Means of accomplishing its end: 267
• Its style: 269
• Instruction an essential requisite: 272
• Religious exhortation: 273
• Familiarity: 274
• Religious Diction: 275
• Two kinds of religious oratorical Discourse The Sermon The Homily: 276
• Recapitulation: 278
• Conclusion: 279

Bibliographic information

• Title: Manual of English Rhetoric
• Author: Andrew Dousa Hepburn
• Publisher: Wilson, Hinkle & Company, 1875
• Original from: Princeton University
• Digitized: Mar 3, 2009
• Length: 268 pages