Chapter 1 Rhetoric： the Art of Discourse

　1.1 What Is Rhetoric

　1.2 Scope of Rhetoric

　1.3 Rhetoric as a Civic Art

　1.4 Rhetoric as a Course of Study

　1.5 Canons of Rhetoric

　Assignment for Further Thinking

Chapter 2 History of Rhetoric

　2.1 A Brief Introduction to the History of Rhetoric

　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 Modern Rhetoric

　Assignment for Further Thinking

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 of Athens

　3.10 Aristogeito

　3.11 Claudius Aelianus

　3.12 Cicero

　3.13 Corax of Syracuse

　3.14 Pericles

　3.15 Quintus Hortensius

　3.16 Winston Churchill

　3.17 Margaret Thatcher

　3.18 Ralph Waldo Emerson

　3.19 Douglas MacArthur

　3.20 John F.Kennedy

　3.21 Martin Luther King

　3.22 Abraham Lincoln

　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 Clinton

　3.31 George W.Bush

　3.32 Barack Obama

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Chapter 4 Samples of Oratory Scripts

　4.1 The Lady's Not for Turning

　4.2 Give Me Liberty， or Give Me Death！

　4.3 Cross of Gold

　4.4 Inauguration of John F.Kennedy

　4.5 I Have a Dream

　4.6 Gettysburg Address

　4.7 Tony Blair's Speech

　4.8 Be Ye Men of Valour

　4.9 We Shall Fight on the Beaches

　4.10 Blood， Toil， Tears and Sweat

　4.11 The Hypocrisy of American Slavery

　4.12 Fighting R—ebels with Only One Hand

　4.13 What 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 of the 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 A More Perfect Union

　Assignment for Further Thinking

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

　Assignment for Further Thinking

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