Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: a Series of Practical Lessons on the Origin, History, and Peculiarities of the English Language ...: Adapted to Self-instruction, and the Use of Schools and Colleges ...

D. Appleton and Company, 1877 - English language - 454 pages

PART I	13

Origin of Spoken Language	17

Written Language	20

Alphabetic Writing	24

Formation of Language	29

Origin of the English Language	34

Origin of the English Language continued	41

Origin of the English Language continued	47

Analysis of the English Language	52

Characteristics of the English Language	57

Parts of Speech	61

Sentences	67

Capital Letters	74

Exercise on Capitals	79

Principles of the Art	81

The Period	86

The Interrogationpoint The Exclamationpoint	91

The Colon	97

The Semicolon	100

The Comma	104

The Comma continued	108

The Comma continued	128

Parentheses Brackets	136

Exercise on the Apostrophe the Hyphen and Quotationpoints	147

Grammatical Inaccuracies	155

PART III	163

Taste Its Universality and Cultivation	169

Standard of Taste	178

Sources of the Pleasures of the Imagination The Novel The	188

The Sublime in Writing continued	206

The Beautiful	214

Gracefulness The Beautiful in the Human Countenance	221

Humor and Ridicule	231

Figurative Language	239

Exercises on Figurative Language	245

Exercise on the Varieties of Style	267

LESSON PAGE LVI Essential Properties of Style Purity Propriety	270

Exercise on Purity and Propriety	277

Precision	279

Clearness or Perspicuity	284

Exercise on Clearness	291

Revision and Correction of Compositions	334

Exercise in Amplification	337

Exercise in Extended Simile	338

Exercise in Allegory	339

Exercise in Hyperbole	340

Exercises in Vision and Apostrophe	341

Exercises in Climax and Antithesis	342

Exercise in Parallels	343

Exercise in Parallels	344

Exercise in Paraphrasing	345

Exercise in Abridging	346

Exercise in Abridging	347

Description of Material Objects	348

Description of Natural Scenery and Persons	350

Narration Argument Exposition Speculation	353

Letters	355

Letters continued	365

Narratives	367

Exercise in Biography	372

Fiction	374

Essays 879	379

Exercises in EssayWriting	385

Orations SermonWriting	392

PART V	400

Stanzas Sonnets Heroic Verse Blank Verse	406

Rhymes Pauses	413

Varieties of Poetry	418

Specimen ProofSheet	424

Explanation of Marks used on the Specimen ProofSheet	426

List of Subjects	427

Table of Abbreviations	436

Index	442

Title	Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: a Series of Practical Lessons on the Origin, History, and Peculiarities of the English Language ...: Adapted to Self-instruction, and the Use of Schools and Colleges ...
Author	George Payn Quackenbos
Publisher	D. Appleton and Company, 1877
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	5 May 2014
Length	454 pages

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