English Composition and Rhetoric: A Manual

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D. Appleton, 1867 - 343 páginas
 

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CHAPTER II
66
The Abstract Noun
67
CHAPTER III
73
Use of words in their wellunderstood meanings
79
Names of common things
80
Contemplation of Power in Nature
85
Examples of the failure of great efforts of genius from unsuit
86
Avoiding the repetition of the same word
91
Strength from Objectivity
97
Tender Feeling allied to inactivity or repose
103
Wit defined
108
Wit combined with the Ludicrous
109
Involves the voice and the ear
110
Abrupt consonants should alternate with vowels
111
Alternation of vowel and consonant in successive words
112
Varying the letters
113
The closing syllables of a sentence
114
Variety of sound in composition generally
115
HARMONY OF SOUND AND SENSE 126 An example of the general Law of Harmony
116
Imitation of Movements
117
Bulk expressed by slowness of rhythm
119
Meanings of Taste
120
CHAPTER V
122
The Participial construction in the Period
124
The periodic form favorable to Unity
125
Balance aids the Memory
126
Extreme form of the Balance
127
Balance with Obverse Iteration
128
Keeping up the same leading term
129
The Condensed Sentence used for Comic effect
130
1 In the be ginning
131
2 After an adverbial phrase or clause
132
3 At the end
133
Unity of the Sentence
136
THE PARAGRAPH
141
Paragraph defined
142
Adversative Conjunctions
143
Phrases of reference
144
166170 Cases in which connecting words are unnecessary
145
Demonstrative Phrases of reference
146
Repetition in substance of what has been said
147
De Quincey remarkable for explicit reference
148
Third Requisite The opening sentence to indicate the subject of the Paragraph
150
Fourth Requisite Freedom from dislocation
151
Sixth Requisite A due proportion between Principal and Sub ordinate statements
152
PART II
153
First To combine with the Enumeration of the parts a Plan of the whole
154
Any feature may be chosen suggesting a comprehensive aspect Examples of the general rule
155
Second The Description may be panoramic
156
Third Description aided by Individuality
157
Fourth Description by Associated Circumstances
158
Associated human Feelings in Description
159
Description of Mind First the proper vocabulary of Mind
160
Second Feelings may be suggested by their Associations
162
Description involved in all other kinds of Composition
163
In Poetry What Descriptions may be undertaken by the poet
164
CHAPTER II
166
First rule To follow the Order of Events
167
A backward reference may be necessary
168
Sometimes what is recent is best to start from
169
A comprehensive scheme possible in narrative
170
Contending parties Danger of stealthy transition
171
Fourth The Explanatory Narrative
174
Interest or the gratification of the Feelings
176
CHAPTER III
185
Constituents of Science
186
Whenever truth is expressed generally we have Science
187
Individual facts by themselves not peculiar to science
188
Defining by Particulars
189
The two methods combined
190
The scholastic definition a form of Analysis
192
The PROPOSITION or Principle
193
The conditions of the employment of Illustrations for expository ends
203
Calling attention to Difficulties
205
Inferences and Applications serve to elucidate principles
207
The Expository Paragraph
208
Various forms of the Paragraph
210
Management of novel terms
211
CHAPTER IV
212
Oratory of the Law Courts
213
Pulpit Oratory Cultivation of the Religious Feelings
215
An orator has to overbear mens special views by means of larger principles of action
219
ability to the minds addressedHistory of the abolition of the Censorship of the press in England
220
MEANS OF PERSUASION
223
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Different aspects of Persuasion
225
Persuasion as based on Description Narration or Exposition
226
Persuasion aided by all the arts that impress ideas
228
An Argument defined
229
96
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Inductive Arguments
231
Arguments from Analogy
233
Probable Arguments
234
101
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Number and Order of Arguments
237
Separating the arguments on the other side
238
Kind of Refutation called Argumentum ad hominem
240
Exposure of defective Arguments from Analogy
241
Debate often turns on opposing Probabilities
242
Tactics of Debate
243
Oratory of the FEELINGS Classes of human motives
244
First our own Pleasures and Pains considered as remote
245
Secondly Sympathy with the Pleasures and Pains of others
248
Fear Love Vanity and Pride Anger Ridicule Fine Art Emotion the Moral Senti ment
249
Management of the Feelings generally
255
The Demeanor of the Speaker
256
CHAPTER V
257
Subjects and Form peculiar to Poetry Pure and mixed kinds
259
External Nature furnishes materials for Poetry
260
Our interest in Humanity enters into Poetry
262
Concreteness and Combination are characteristic of Poetry
263
Poetry
264
The Ideal is sought after
267
The Imitation of Nature imposes limitations on Poetry
269
Plot Interest
270
Painful effects should be redeemed Tragedy
271
Metreits uses
272
SPECIES OF POETRY 130 Species classified
274
1 The Song
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2 The Ode
276
3 The Elegy
277
2 The Romance
279
5 The Metrical History
280
8 The Prose Fiction
281
Nature of the dramatic interest
282
2 Comedy Its various forms
283
Didactic Poetry Satiric Poetry
284
The metrical features of English poetry
285
Examples of the different Measures
286
Rhymed Verse
292
Dr Campbells allegorical comparison of Probability
299
Robert Halls Reflections on War The Sentence Pathos
308
Examples of Description from Sir Walter Scott
316
Hobbes on Laughter Sentence Paragraph Exposition
324
Drydens criticisms on Ben Jonson and Shakespeare Sen tence Paragraph Exposition
327
Expository Extract from Mr Samuel Bailey Application of Principles
330
Expository and moralizing passage from Macaulay
333
Confused chain of reasoning from Campbells Rhetoric
335
Passage from Adam Smith Exposition applied to Moral Suasion
336
Oratorical passage from Demosthenes on the Crown
338
Coleridges Mont Blanc Poetic rendering of Nature
341
Byrons Thunder Storm The Impressiveness of Action
342
Dyers Grongar Hill Poetical Description
343

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