Preliminary Remarks: Arts, Grammar — Rhetoric: Definition and Position, Structure and Presentation, Parts of the Art (Inventio: Exordium, Narratio, Argumentatio, Peroratio - Dispositio - Elocutio - Memoria - Pronuntiatio), Exercise — Poetics: Mimetic Means, Objects of Mimesis, Types of Mimesis — Bibliography — Terminological Index (Latin, Greek, French: pp. 637-959) — Additions to the 2nd Edition.

Press Review: "The work by Lausberg, which is a testament to diligence, encyclopedic knowledge, and a strong sense of order and systematization, offers a comprehensive inventory, i.e., an inventory not only of the theoretical rhetoric of antiquity (including the French), derived from the cultivated language of the great masters, formal-poetic, language-architectural phenomena and rules, aspects and terms of rhetoric, but of the entire manipulated language technique. All means employed by the speaker or poet to convince, persuade, enlighten, edify, morally admonish, call to action, and entertain epideictically are presented in good order based on the observations and prescriptions of the ancient theorists. All linguists will be grateful to the author." Journal of Romance Philology.