Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises, and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and Verse

Harper & Brothers, 1845 - 429 pagine

Objects and their parts	1

Objects their qualities and uses	2

Objects their parts qualities properties uses and appendages	3

Events	4

Objects and Events	5

Names	6

Simple Dialogue or Conversation	7

Words	15

Climax	147

Anticlimax	149

Irony	150

Alliteration	151

Paraphrase or Explanation	153

Outlines in Narrative 155 1	155

Connected Narrative from scattered Facts	157

Narration expanded	159

Of Phrases Clauses and Sentences	17

Use of Words Phrases and Clauses in the expan sion of an idea	21

Of the Parts and Adjuncts of a Sentence	22

Of Sentences	24

Of Capital Letters	25

Of Punctuation	27

Derivation and Composition of Words	34

Synonymes	40

Methods of Inversion and Transposition	50

Formation of Compound Sentences from Simple ones	58

Of the English Language	61

Periphrase Periphrasis or Circumlocution Eu phemism and Antonomasia	63

Variety of Expression	73

Of Grammatical Propriety	88

On the selection of Words and Expressions	92

Of the Construction of Sentences	93

Of Clearness	94

Of Unity	95

Of the Strength of a Sentence	97

Of the Harmony of a Sentence	99

Onomatopeia or Sound adapted to the Sense	104

Definition and Distinction or Difference	105

Analogy	110

Figurative Language	111

Translation of Plain into Figurative Language	115

Rules relating to Metaphors	117

Prosopopia or Personification	118

Simile or Comparison	122

Antithesis	125

Parallel	128

Allegory	131

Apologue and Fable	136

Riddle or Enigma	138

Charade	139

Hyperbole	141

Apostrophe	143

Interrogation	144

Exclamation	145

Vision	146

Description	165

Narration and Description united	178

Epistolary Correspondence or Letter Writing	183

Regular Subjects	200

Themes	203

Abstracts	211

Essays from Abstracts	213

Divisions of a Subject	215

Amplification	218

Illustration of a Subject	219

On the Treatment of a Subject	222

Generalization of a Subject	227

Poetry and Versification	230

Vocabulary of Rhymes	243

Epithets	282

Lyric Poetry	284

Pastoral and Elegiac Poetry	289

Of the higher species of Poetry	294

Style	300

Directions to Students in revising and correct ing their Compositions	303

Technical Terms relating to Books	313

Obituary Notice	314

Critical Notice	317

Criticism	318

Biographical Sketch	322

College Exercises	324

Essay Treatise Tract Thesis	329

College Poem	336

Dissertation	338

Disquisition	341

Discussions	344

Disputations	355

Orations	361

Bowdoin Prize Dissertation	381

On the Composition of a Sermon	390

Subjects for Composition of all kinds	399

List of Works consulted in the preparation of this Volume	419

Index of Subjects noticed in this Work	420

Titolo	Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises, and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and Verse
Autore	Richard Green Parker
Editore	Harper & Brothers, 1845
Provenienza dell'originale	la University of California
Digitalizzato	7 dic 2007
Lunghezza	429 pagine

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