Advanced Course of Composition and RhetoricReprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost. |
Contents
BESSON PART I | 13 |
Origin of Spoken Language | 17 |
Written Language | 20 |
Alphabetic Writing | 23 |
Formation of Language | 29 |
Origin of the English Language | 34 |
Origin of the English Language continued | 41 |
Analysis of the English Language | 52 |
24 | 254 |
Style and its Varieties | 262 |
LESSON PAGK LVI Essential Properties of Style Purity Propriety | 270 |
Exercise on Purity and Propriety | 277 |
29 | 278 |
Precision | 279 |
Clearness or Perspicuity | 284 |
Exercise on Clearness | 291 |
Characteristics of the English Language | 57 |
Parts of Speech | 61 |
Sentences | 67 |
Capital Letters | 74 |
Exercise on Capitals | 79 |
PART II | 81 |
The Period | 85 |
XVIL The Interrogationpoint The Exclamationpoint XVIII The Colon XIX The Semicolon | 97 |
The Comma | 104 |
The Comma continued | 108 |
Apostrophe Hyphen Quotationpoints PAGE | 113 |
Exercise on the Apostrophe the Hyphen and Quotationpoints | 147 |
PAGE | 150 |
13 | 152 |
Grammatical Inaccuracies | 155 |
Exercise in False Syntax | 160 |
PART III | 163 |
Taste Its Universality and Cultivation | 169 |
Elements and Characteristics of Taste | 173 |
Standard of Taste | 178 |
Pleasures of the Imagination | 183 |
Wonderful The Picturesque | 188 |
The Sublime | 190 |
The Sublime in Writing | 199 |
XLL The Sublime in Writing continued XLII The Sublime in Writing continued | 206 |
The Beautiful | 208 |
Gracefulness The Beautiful in the Human Countenance in Sound and in Writing | 221 |
Wit | 225 |
Figures of Orthography Etymology and Syntax | 235 |
Figurative Language | 239 |
Exercises on Figurative Language 221 | 245 |
Strength | 293 |
Harmony | 299 |
Exercise on Harmony 808 | 308 |
Unity | 309 |
The Forming of Style | 313 |
34 | 318 |
PART IV | 325 |
Amplification | 329 |
Revision and Correction of Compositions | 334 |
Exercise in Amplification | 337 |
Exercise in Extended Simile LXXIV Exercise in Extended Simile LXXV Exercise in Metaphorical Language | 338 |
Exercise in Allegory | 339 |
Exercise in Hyperbole | 340 |
Exercises in Vision and Apostrophe | 341 |
Exercises in Climax and Antithesis 842 | 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 |
Letters continued | 365 |
Exercise in Biography | 372 |
PART V | 400 |
Stanzas Sonnets Heroic Verse Blank Verse | 406 |
Rhymes Pauses | 413 |
Specimen ProofSheet | 424 |
41 | 428 |
100 | 429 |
Table of Abbreviations | 431 |
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