Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All Grades : Embracing Specimens and Examples of of School and College Exercises and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and Verse

Harper & Brothers, 1852 - 429 pages

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	7

Words	15

Onomatopeia or Sound adapted to the Sense	104

Translation of Plain into Figurative Language	115

LIV	149

Outlines in Narrative	155

Description	165

Narration and Description united	178

Themes	203

Abstracts	211

Title	Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All Grades : Embracing Specimens and Examples of of School and College Exercises and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and Verse
Author	Richard Green Parker
Edition	20
Publisher	Harper & Brothers, 1852
Original from	the University of Virginia
Digitized	3 Jun 2010
Length	429 pages

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Of Phrases Clauses and Sentences	17

sion of an idea	21

Of the Parts and Adjuncts of a Sentence	22

Of Sentences	24

Of Capital Letters	25

Of Punctuation	27

Apostrophe	28

Derivation and Composition of Words	34

Synonymes	40

Methods of Inversion and Transposition	50

Formation of Compound Sentences from Simple ones	58

Of the English Language	61

Periphrase Periphrasis or Circumlocution Eu phemism and Antonomasia	63

Analogy	67

Tautology and Catachresis	69

Pleonasm Verbosity and Redundancy	71

Variety of Expression	73

Of Grammatical Propriety	88

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

Amplification	218

Generalization of a Subject	227

Vocabulary of Rhymes	243

Epithets	282

Pastoral and Elegiac Poetry	289

Directions to Students in revising and correct PAGE ing their Compositions	303

Marks used by Printers in correcting the Press 310 LXXXIII 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

Discussions	344

Disputations	355

Orations	361

Bowdoin Prize Dissertation	381

On the Composition of a Sermon	390

Subjects for Composition of all kinds	399

List of Works consulted in the preparation of this Volume	419

Index of Subjects noticed in this Work	420