English Composition and Rhetoric

1877

THE FIGURES OF SPEECH	1

Origin of the tendency to Exaggeration	2

The periodic form favourable to Unity	4

Short and Long Sentences	5

The Balanced Sentence	6

Comparisons addressed to the Feelings	7

Balance gives an agreeable surprise	8

Extreme form of the Balance	9

De Quincey remarkable for explicit reference 114 18 Second Requisite of the ParagraphThe rule of Parallel Construction	114

Third RequisiteThe opening sentence to indicate the subject of the Paragraph	116

Sixth RequisiteA due proportion between Principal and Subordinate statements	117

Complication demands an Art of Description	118

Description of MIND First the proper vocabulary	124

First rule To follow the Order of Events	130

Arts of Abridgment	136

Incidents relating to the progress of Catholic Emancipation	145

MELODY	10

Balance with Obverse Iteration	11

The Metaphor defined and explained	12

Requisites of those causing Surprise	13

Keeping up the same leading term	14

The Condensed Sentence	15

The Pointed Style	16

Requisites of the sentence generally	17

Allegory defined and exemplified	18

2 After an adverbial phrase or clause the Beginning	19

3 At the	20

The Predicate is also a Principal	21

The place of emphasis for important words	22

Unity of the Sentence	23

The Transferred Epithet	24

It is often requisite to include in a sentence several	25

Climax defined and exemplified	28

Contrast a Fundamental Law of the Mind	36

Vision	37

The seeming Irrelevance	42

Violations of Brevity I Tautology	43

THE QUALITIES OF STYLE	51

Page	74

Involves the Voice and the	81

An example of the general Law of Harmony	88

distinct facts Examination of a Narrative Ex tract Page	93

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ib ib 96 ib ib 97 ib 98	98

THE PARAGRAPH 1 Paragraph defined	108

First requisite Explicit Reference Use of Conjunctions Sonjunction 109 4 Cumulative Conjunctions ib 5 Adversative Conjunctions ib 6 Illative Conju...	109

The Simile defined and exemplified	111

Demonstrative Phrases of reference	113

Incident in the Irish Rebellion at the end of last century	146

Applies to knowledge in the form of Science 2 Chief attribute of Science Generality 35 Constituents of Science 67 Clearness of statement presupposed	147

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ib	157

Delineation of Character and Criticism ib 28 Illustrations as distinguished from Examples	159

The imparting of entraneous human interest to science Plato	160

view	162

The conditions of the employment of illustrations for expository ends	163

Page	164

Calling attention to Difficulties 33 The Proof of a principle contributes to its exposition 34 Inferences and Applications serve to elucidate principles 3...	165

Maxim of proceeding from the known to the unknown	170

བབ	177

Arguments from Analogy	191

Tactics of Debate	198

34	199

others	204

40	211

Concreteness and Combinations are characteristic	218

Plot Interest	224

4 The Ballad	228

4 The Sonnet	230

DRAMATIC POETRY	234

The Elements that make up the kinds of Verse	242

EXTRACTS ANALYZED	245

Grammatical laws of the Sentence	252

Examples of Description from Sir Walter Scott	269

Drydens criticisms on Ben Jonson and Shakespeare	277

Expository Extract from Mr Samuel Bailey Ap	283

Coleridges Mont Blanc Poetic rendering of Nature	291

The Participial construction in the Period

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Título	English Composition and Rhetoric English Composition and Rhetoric, Bain
Autor	Bain
Edición	4
Publicado	1877
Procedencia del original	Biblioteca universitaria de Basilea
Digitalizado	21 Jul. 2023

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