Aids to English Composition

BoD – Books on Demand, 2023 M09 20 - 444 pages

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

Objects and their parts	1

Objects their qualities and uses	2

Objects their parts qualities properties uses and appendages	3

Events	4

Objects and Events	5

Names	6

Simple Dialogue or Conversation 6	7

Words	15

Paraphrase or Explanation	153

Outlines in Narrative	155

Connected Narrative from scattered Facts	157

Narration expanded	159

Description	165

LXIII	178

Regular Subjects	200

LXVI	203

Of Phrases Clauses and Sentences	17

Use of Words Phrases and Clauses in the expan sion of an idea	21

Of Capital Letters XIV Of Punctuation Of the Parts and Adjuncts of a Sentence	22

Derivation and Composition of Words	34

Synonymes	40

ones	53

Variety of Expression XXV Anagrams	54

Of Grammatical Propriety Methods of Inversion and Transposition	55

Formation of Compound Sentences from Simple	58

Of the English Language	61

Periphrase Periphrasis or Circumlocution Eu phemism and Antonomasia	63

Figurative Language	67

Pleonasm Verbosity and Redundancy	73

Translation or Conversion of Poetry into Prose	76

On the selection of Words and Expressions	92

Of the Construction of Sentences	93

Of Clearness	94

Of Unity	96

Of the Strength of a Sentence	97

Of the Harmony of a Sentence	99

Onomatopeia or Sound adapted to the Sense	104

Definition and Distinction or Difference	105

Translation of Plain into Figurative Language	115

Rules relating to Metaphors XXXIX Prosopopcia or Personification	118

Simile or Comparison	122

Antithesis	125

Parallel	128

Allegory	131

Apologue and Fable	136

Riddle or Enigma	138

Charade	139

Hyperbole	141

Apostrophe	143

Interrogation L Repetition	144

Exclamation	145

Vision	146

Climax	147

Anticlimax LV Allusion	149

Irony	150

Alliteration	151

Themes Abstracts	211

Essays from Abstracts LXIX Divisions of a Subject	215

Amplification	218

Illustration of a Subject	219

On the Treatment of a Subject	222

Generalization of a Subject	227

Poetry and Versification	230

Vocabulary of Rhymes	243

Epithets	282

Lyric Poetry	284

Pastoral and Elegiac Poetry	289

Of the higher species of Poetry	294

Style	300

Directions to Students in revising and correct ing their Compositions	303

PAGE	304

Technical Terms relating to Books	313

Obituary Notice	314

Critical Notice	317

Criticism	318

Biographical Sketch	322

College Exercises	324

Essay Treatise Tract Thesis	329

College Poem	336

Dissertation	338

Disquisition	341

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200	401

243	402

289	403

314	404

69	407

97	418

322	420

324	421

341	422

Discussions	423

Disputations	427

this Volume 344 355 861 381 890 899 XCIX List of Works consulted in the preparation of C Index of Subjects noticed in this Work 419 490	429

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