Rhetoric


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1 The nature and scope of rhetoric.
2 The distinction of rhetoric from dialectic and sophistry, the rhetorician and the philosopher.
3 The relation of rhetoric to grammar, logic, and psychology.
4 The relation of rhetoric to the arts of government, the orator and the statesman.
5 The function of rhetoric in expository, speculative, and poetic discourse.
6 The devices of rhetoric, figures of speech, the extension and contraction of discourse.
7 The canon of excellence in style.
8 Methods of exposition in history, science, philosophy, and theology.
9 Principles of interpretation, the modes of meaning.
10 The role of rhetoric as concerned with persuasion in the sphere of action, the analysis of oratory.
11 The kinds of oratory, deliberative, forensic, epideictic.
12 The structure of an oration, the order of its parts.
13 The use of language for persuasion, oratorical style.
14 The means of persuasion, the distinction between artistic and inartistic means.
15 The orator's consideration of character and of the types of audience, the significance of his own character.
16 The orator's treatment of emotion, his display of emotion, the arousal of his audience.
17 Rhetorical argument, the distinction between persuasion and demonstration .
18 Rhetorical induction, the use of examples.
19 Rhetorical proof, the use of enthymemes.
20 The topics or commonplaces which are the source of premises, the orator's knowledge of various subject matters.
21 The evaluation of oratory and the orator, the justification of rhetorical means by the end of success in persuasion.
22 The purpose of oratory and the exigencies of truth.
23 The orator's concern with justice, law, and the good, the moral virtue of the orator.
24 The education of the orator, the schools of rhetoric.
25 The history of oratory, its importance under various social conditions and in different forms of government.
26 Examples of excellence in oratory.


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