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.
Phillips, Wendell. 
Phrases. 
Plot: 
  interrelation with character. 
Poe. 
Poetry:  Chapter VII;
  aim of,
  kinds of. 
Point:  of a story,
  see also climax. 
Point of view: 
  selection of details effected by,
  implied,
  changing,
  place in paragraph. 
Possibility:  in argument. 
Post. 
Prepositions. 
Preston and Dodge. 
Principal parts of verbs. 
Probability: 
  in narration,
  in argument. 
Procter, Adelaide. 
Pronouns. 
Pronunciation. 
Proportion of parts:  for emphasis. 
Propositions: 
  specific,
  general,
  exposition of,
  necessary to argument,
  of fact and of theory,
  statement of. 
Proverbs:  use in argument. 
Punctuation.

Quotation marks:  rules for.

Rankin. 
Read. 
Reasoning: 
  inductive,
  errors of induction,
  deductive,
  relation between inductive and deductive,
  errors of deduction. 
Reasons:  number and value of. 
Recitations: 
  preparation for,
  topical. 
Refutation. 
Reid, Captain Mayne. 
Repetition: 
  developing a paragraph by,
  exposition by use of. 
Reproduction: 
  of a story,
  of the thought of a paragraph. 
Restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. 
Rhyme. 
Rhythm:  variation in. 
Richards, Laura E.
Right:  questions of. 
Robertson. 
Roosevelt. 
Ruskin.

Scansion. 
Scott. 
Semicolon:  rules for. 
Sentences: 
  length,
  in conversation,
  relations,
  rhetorical features. 
Sewell, Anna. 
Shakespeare. 
Shelley. 
Sign:  argument from. 
Simile. 
Slang. 
Smith. 
Song. 
Sonnet. 
Sources of ideas. 
Specific instances: 
  development of a paragraph by use of,
  use in argument and exposition,
  development of a composition by use of,
  use in exposition. 
Spelling. 
Spencer. 
Stanza. 
Stevenson. 
Stoddard. 
Strong verbs. 
Subject: 
  selection of,
  adapted to reader,
  sources,
  should be definite,
  narrowing. 
Suggestions, see cautions. 
Summaries, at the end of the chapters. 
Summarizing paragraph. 
Syllogism. 
Symons. 
Synecdoche. 
Synonyms.

Tarkington. 
Taylor. 
Tennyson. 
Tense. 
Terms: 
  specific, general,
  explanation of,
  exposition of,
  use in argument and exposition. 
Themes:  see descriptive, narrative, expository, argumentative, and
  reproduction themes. 
Thoreau. 
Thurston. 
Time-order. 
Title:  selecting of. 
Topic statement. 
Transition from one paragraph to another. 
Transition paragraph. 
Trowbridge. 
Turner.

Unity: 
  aided by time relations,
  aided by position in space,
  definition,
  in life;
  in outline,
  in composition,
  in sentences,
  selection of details giving,
  selection of facts in exposition,
  aided by outline.

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