Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Rhetoric：theArt ofDiscourse

1.1What Is Rhetoric

1.2 Scope ofRhetoric

1.3 Rhetoric as a CivicArt

1.4 Rhetoric as a Course of Study

1.5 Canons ofRhetoric

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Chapter 2 History of Rhetoric

2.1 ABriefIntroduction to the History ofRhetoric

2.2 The Sophists in Ancient Greece

2.3 Plato

2.4 Aristotle

2.5 Cicero

2.6 Quintilian

2.7 Medieval to Enlightenment

2.8 The Sixteenth Century

2.9 The Seventeenth Century

2.10 The Eighteenth Century

2.11 Modem Rhetoric

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Chapter 3 Famous Orators

3.1 Demosthenes

3.2 Aeschines

3.3 Andocides

3.4 Antiphon

3.5 Dinarchus

3.6 Lysias

3.7 Isaeus

3.8 Isocrates

3.9 Lycurgus ofAthens

3.10 Aristogeiton

3.11 ClaudiusAelianus

3.12 Cicero

3.13 Corax ofSyracuse

3.14 Pericles

3.15 Quintus Hortensius

3.16 Winston Churchill

3.17 Margaret Thatcher

3.18 Ralph Waldo Emerson

3.19 Doug1as MaeArthur

3.20 John F.Kennedy

3.21 Martin Luther King，Jr

3.22 Abraham Linco1n

3.23 Patrick Henry

3.24 Tony Blair

3.25 Richard Nixon

3.26 Jimmy Carter

3.27 Frederick Douglass

3.28 Ronald Reagan

3.29 William Jennings Bryan

3.30 Bill C1inton

3.31 George W.Bush

3.32 Barack Obama

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Chapter4 Samples of Oratory Seripts

4.1 The Lady’s Not forTurning

4.2 Give Me Liberty，or Give Me Death！

4.3 Cross ofGold

4.4 Inauguration ofJohn F.Kennedy

4.5 I Have a Dream

4.6 Gettysburg Address

4.7 Tony Blair’s Speeeh

4.8 Be Ye Men ofValour

4.9 We Shall Fight on the Beaches

4.10 Blood，Toil，Tears and Sweat

4.11 The Hypocrisy ofAmerican Slavery

4.12 Fighting Rebels with Only One Hand

4.13What the Black Man Wants

4.14 Albert J.Beveridge’s Maiden Speech

4.15 Mesmerizing the Masses

4.16 I Have Sinned

4.17 Remarks Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago

4.18 Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in New York

4.19 Remarks Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York

4.20 Address of Senator John F.Kennedy Accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency ofthe United States

4.21 Address to the Nation

4.22 The Iraqi Threat

4.23 Update in the War on Terror

4.24 The speech that made Barack Obama Famous

4.25 Barack Obama’s Victory Speech

4.26 AMore Perfect Union

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Chapter 5 Figures of Speech

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Alliteration

5.3 Anaphora

5.4 Antithesis

5.5 Apostrophe

5.6 Assonance

5.7 Chiasmus

5.8 Euphemism

5.9 Hyperbole

5.10 Irony

5.11 Litotes

5.12 Metaphor

5.13 Metonymy

5.14 Onomatopoeia

5.15 Oxymoron

5.16 Paradox

5.17 Personification

5.18 Pun

5.19 Simile

5.20 Synecdoche

5.21 Understatement

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References