Composition-Rhetoric eBook

Stratton D. Brooks
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 464 pages of information about Composition-Rhetoric.

Composition-Rhetoric eBook

Stratton D. Brooks
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 464 pages of information about Composition-Rhetoric.
Descriptive themes. 
Details: 
  selection of;
  paragraph developed by;
  related in time-order;
  related with reference to position in space;
  used in general description;
  in general narration;
  composition developed by giving details in time-order;
  by giving details with reference to position in space;
  selection of, affected by point of view;
  selection of essential;
  selection and subordination of minor;
  arrangement of;
  in narration;
  arrangement;
  selection of facts in exposition;
  exposition by use of. 
Dewey. 
Diction. 
Discourse:  forms of
  presupposes an audience. 
Division. 
Dixey. 
Dramatic poetry. 
Dryer. 
Dunbar, Mary Louise.

Ease. 
Effectiveness in description
  comparison and figures of speech, as aids to. 
Elegance. 
Elegy. 
Eliot, George. 
Emphasis
  in sentences. 
Enthymeme. 
Epic. 
Equivalents:  for nouns
  for adjectives.
  for adverbs
Essentials of expression. 
Euphony. 
Evidence. 
Examples:  use in exposition
  argument from (see also specific instances). 
Exclamation mark:  rule for. 
Expediency:  questions of. 
Experience:  ideas gained from, Chapter I; relation to imagination
  impressions limited to. 
Exposition:  Chapter X (see also expository themes); purpose of
  importance of
  clear understanding necessary
  of terms
  of propositions
  by repetition
  by examples
  by comparison and contrast
  by obverse statements
  by details
  by cause and effect
  by general description
  by general narration
  by use of specific instances. 
Expository themes. 
Expression:  essentials of.

Fallacy. 
Feelings:  appeal to, in persuasion. 
Feet. 
Fields. 
Figures of speech
  use of
  as an aid to effectiveness in description. 
Ford. 
Form:  importance of
   directions as to. 
Forms of discourse. 
Fundamental image.

Gender. 
General theory:  how established,
  basis of
  appeals to. 
George, Marian M.
Gilman. 
Grammar review. 
Gray.

Hare. 
Harland. 
Harris. 
Hawthorne. 
Henry. 
Higginson and Channing. 
Hinman. 
History:  writing of. 
Hoar. 
Holland. 
Holmes. 
Howells. 
Hyperbole.

Ideas:  from experience, Chapter I;
from imagination, Chapter II; from
language, Chapter III.
  pleasure in expressing
  sources of
  advantages of expressing ideas gained from experience
  from imagination
  ideas from pictures
  acquired through language. 
Images:  making of
  complete and incomplete
  reproduction of
  other requirements to determine meaning
  fundamental
  union with impression. 
Imagination, Chapter II. 
Impression: 

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