English Composition and Rhetoric: A Manual

Alexander Bain

D. Appleton, 1889 - English language - 343 pages

Contents

• Definition and Divisions of Rhetoric: 19
• Metaphors may lose their figurative character: 21
• PAGE: 24
• Picturesque Comparisons: 25
• Personifying Metaphors: 31
• PERSONIFICATION: 34
• FIGURES OF CONTIGUITY: 41
• Secondary forms of Antithesis: 47
• INTERROGATION: 50
• The Seeming Irrelevance: 53
• EXCLAMATION: 60
• Figures of Speech: 66
• CHAPTER III: 73
• The avoiding of a complication of Negatives: 74
• Names of common things: 80
• 883888888: 84
• Examples of the failure of great efforts of genius from unsuit: 86
• Contemplation of Power in Nature: 91
• Strength from Objectivity: 97
• THE LUDICROUSHUMORWIT: 104
• Wit defined: 108
• Wit combined with the Ludicious: 109
• Involves the voice and the ear: 110
• Abrupt consonants should alternate with vowels: 111
• Alternation of vowel and consonant in successive words: 112
• Varying the letters: 113
• The closing syllables of a sentence: 114
• Variety of sound in composition generally: 115
• HARMONY OF SOUND AND SENSE 126 An example of the general Law of Harmony: 116
• Imitation of Movements: 117
• Bulk expressed by slowness of rhythm: 119
• Meanings of Taste: 120
• CHAPTER V: 122
• The Participial construction in the Period: 124
• The periodic form favorable to Unity: 125
• Balance aids the Memory: 126
• Extreme form of the Balance: 127
• Balance with Obverse Iteration: 128
• Keeping up the same leading term: 129
• The Condensed Sentence used for Comic effect: 130
• 1 In the be ginning: 131
• 2 After an adverbial phrase or clause: 132
• 3 At the end: 133
• Unity of the Sentence: 136
• THE PARAGRAPH: 141
• Paragraph defined: 142
• Adversative Conjunctions: 143
• Phrases of reference: 144
• 166170 Cases in which connecting words are unnecessary: 145
• Demonstrative Phrases of reference: 146
• Repetition in substance of what has been said: 147
• De Quincey remarkable for explicit reference: 148
• Third Requisite The opening sentence to indicate the subject: 150
• Fourth Requisite Freedom from dislocation: 151
• Sixth Requisite A due proportion between Principal and Sub ordinate statements: 152
• PART II: 153
• First To combine with the Enumeration of the parts a Plan of the whole: 154
• Any feature may be chosen suggesting a comprehensive aspect Examples of the general rule: 155
• Origin of the tendency to Exaggeration: 156
• Third Description aided by Individuality: 157
• Fourth Description by Associated Circumstances: 158
• Associated human Feelings in Description: 159
• Description of Mind First the proper vocabulary of Mind: 160
• Second Feelings may be suggested by their Associations: 162
• Description involved in all other kinds of Composition: 163
• In Poetry What Descriptions may be undertaken by the poet: 164
• CHAPTER II: 166
• First rule To follow the Order of Events: 167
• A backward reference may be necessary: 168
• Sometimes what is recent is best to start from: 169
• A comprehensive scheme possible in narrative: 170
• Contending parties Danger of stealthy transition: 171
• Third Relieving the detail by Summaries: 172
• Art of Abridgment: 173
• Fourth The Explanatory Narrative: 174
• Interest or the gratification of the Feelings: 176
• Sixth History based on Geography: 178
• A nations existence analyzed into departments: 179
• History involves the arts of Exposition and of Poetry: 183
• Much of what has been said on History applies to Biography: 184
• CHAPTER III: 185
• Constituents of Science: 186
• Whenever truth is expressed generally we have Science: 187
• Individual facts by themselves not peculiar to science: 188
• Defining by Particulars: 189
• The two methods combined: 190
• The scholastic definition a form of Analysis: 192
• Climax defined and exemplified: 193
• There should always be one chief statement: 194
• Advantages of the Obverse Statement: 195
• The principal medium of Exposition is Examples: 196
• Choice of Examples: 197
• Principles embodied in Examples: 198
• Delineation of Character and Criticism: 199
• The imparting of extended human interest to Science Plato: 201
• The choice of Examples and Illustrations with this view: 202
• The conditions of the employment of Illustrations for expository ends: 203
• Calling attention to Difficulties: 205
• Inferences and Applications serve to elucidate principles: 207
• The Expository Paragraph: 208
• Various forms of the Paragraph: 210
• Management of novel terms: 211
• CHAPTER IV: 212
• The ENDS of Oratory 80 Political Oratory Argument and Exhortation: 213
• Pulpit Oratory Cultivation of the Religious Feelings: 215
• An orator has to overbear mens special views by means of larger principles of action: 219
• ability to the minds addressedHistory of the abolition of the Censorship of the press in England: 220
• Poetry: 221
• MEANS OF PERSUASION: 223
• A thorough knowledge of the subject a chief requisite Re sources of language and illustration also requisite: 224
• Different aspects of Persuasion: 225
• Persuasion as based on Description Narration or Exposition: 226
• Persuasion aided by all the arts that impress ideas: 228
• An Argument defined: 229
• Deductive Arguments: 230
• Inductive Arguments: 231
• Arguments from Analogy: 233
• Probable Arguments: 234
• Devices for stifling Arguments: 236
• Number and Order of Arguments: 237
• Based on the degradation of some object possessing dignity 104: 238
• Kind of Refutation called Argumentum ad hominem: 240
• Exposure of defective Arguments from Analogy: 241
• Debate often turns on opposing Probabilities: 242
• Tactics of Debate: 243
• Oratory of the FEELINGS Classes of human motives: 244
• First our own Pleasures and Pains considered as remote: 245
• Secondly Sympathy with the Pleasures and Pains of others: 248
• Fear Love Vanity and Pride Anger Ridicule Fine Art Emotion the Moral Senti ment: 249
• Management of the Feelings generally: 255
• The Demeanor of the Speaker: 256
• CHAPTER V: 257
• Subjects and Form peculiar to Poetry Pure and mixed kinds: 259
• External Nature furnishes materials for Poetry: 260
• Our interest in Humanity enters into Poetry: 262
• Concreteness and Combination are characteristic of Poetry: 263
• The Ideal is sought after: 267
• The Imitation of Nature imposes limitations on Poetry: 269
• Plot Interest: 270
• Painful effects should be redeemed Tragedy: 271
• Metreits uses: 272
• SPECIES OF POETRY 130 Species classified: 274
• 1 The Song: 275
• 2 The Ode: 276
• 3 The Elegy: 277
• 2 The Romance: 279
• 5 The Metrical History: 280
• 8 The Prose Fiction: 281
• Nature of the dramatic interest: 282
• Didactic Poetry Satiric Poetry: 284
• The metrical features of English poetry: 285
• Examples of the different Measures: 286
• Rhymed Verse: 292
• Dr Campbells allegorical comparison of Probability: 299
• Robert Halls Reflections on War The Sentence Pathos: 308
• Examples of Description from Sir Walter Scott: 316
• Hobbes on Laughter Sentence Paragraph Exposition: 324
• Drydens criticisms on Ben Jonson and Shakespeare Sen tence Paragraph Exposition: 327
• Expository Extract from Mr Samuel Bailey Application of Principles: 330
• Expository and moralizing passage from Macaulay: 333
• Confused chain of reasoning from Campbells Rhetoric: 335
• Passage from Adam Smith Exposition applied to Moral Suasion: 336
• Oratorical passage from Demosthenes on the Crown: 338
• Coleridges Mont Blanc Poetic rendering of Nature: 341
• Byrons Thunder Storm The Impressiveness of Action: 342
• Dyers Grongar Hill Poetical Description: 343

Bibliographic information

• Title: English Composition and Rhetoric: A Manual
• Author: Alexander Bain
• Publisher: D. Appleton, 1889
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Dec 10, 2008
• Length: 343 pages