Manual of Composition and Rhetoric (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1907 Excerpt: ... INDEX The references below are to pages; f. signifies "and following page"; ff. signifies "andfolloicing pages." Abstract Ideas, exposition of, 184 f.; words, see Specific. Exer-cises, 205, 209, 310. Abstracts, 187 f. Accent in prosody, 470. Accessory facts, in introduction, 42 ff., 100, 172, 219. Accuracy in use of words. See Correctness, Precision. Action in stories, 32 ff.; advanced by conversation, 59ff.; divided, 68 ff.; in description, 52 ff., 100f., 135; in drama, 207 ff.; words ex-pressing, 33 f. Exercises, 79 f., 135, 423 f. Adaptation to the reader, 9f. See. Appropriateness. Addison, Joseph, 133, 173, 175, 290, 302, 377, 378 f. Exercises, 424, 426. Adjective phrasesand clauses,451 ff. Adjectives, study of, 434 ff.; errors in, 445. See Words. Adverbial phrases and clauses, 451 ff. Adverbs, conjunctive, 454. jEsop. See Fables. Agassiz, Louis, 232. Allegory, 74, 316, 378 ff. Alliteration, 486. Ambiguity, 220, 390 f., 449 f. Analogy. See Comparison. Anapaest and anapaestic verse, 472, 479, 481. And, abuse of, 320 f.; and which, 445. Antecedent or accessory facts, in introduction, 42 ff., 106, 172, 219. Antecedent probability, 229 f. Anticlimax, 335 f. Antithesis, 330 f., 333. See Con-trast. Antonyms. See Synonyms. Apostrophe, figure of speech, 378; sign, 466. Appropriateness, 354 f., 363 ff. Ex-ercises, 434 ff. Archaisms, 349 f. Argument, 211 ff.; relation to expo-sition, 211 f., 218 f.; parts of, 212 ff.; brief of, 216 ff., 221 f., 249 ff.; introduction, 212, 218 ff.; body, 223, 223 ff.; conclusion, 214, 215, 247; climax in, 223; kinds of argument, 225 ff.; argument of fact, 227 ff.; of theory or prin-ciple, 231 ff.; of policy, 233 ff.; from antecedent probability, 229f.; from sign, 230; from author-ity, 237; evidence and testimony, 228 ff.; refutati...