Composition-Rhetoric
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STRATTON D. BROOKS Superintendent of Schools, Boston, Mass.
MARIETTA HUBBARD Formerly English Department, High School La Salle, Illinois
1905 STRATTON D. BROOKS.
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London.
Brooks's Rhet. W.P. 10
To MARCIA STUART BROOKS Whose teaching first demonstrated to the authors that composition could become a delight and pleasure, this book is dedicated……
The aim of this book is not to produce critical readers of literature, nor to prepare the pupil to answer questions about rhetorical theory, but to enable every pupil to express in writing, freely, clearly, and forcibly, whatever he may find within him worthy of expression.
Three considerations of fundamental importance underlie the plan of the book:—
Stratton D. Brooks
Marietta Hubbard
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COMPOSITION-RHETORIC
PREFACE
CONTENTS
PART I
PART II
PART 1
1. EXPRESSION OF IDEAS ARISING FROM EXPERIENCE
EXERCISE
EXERCISE
SUMMARY
II. EXPRESSION OF IDEAS FURNISHED BY IMAGINATION
EXERCISES
SUMMARY
III. EXPRESSION OF IDEAS ACQUIRED THROUGH LANGUAGE
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SUMMARY
IV. THE PURPOSE OF EXPRESSION
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SUMMARY
V. THE WHOLE COMPOSITION
DEGENERATION THROUGH QUIESCENCE
SUMMARY
VI. LETTER WRITING
EXERCISE
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EXERCISES
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VII. POETRY
EXERCISES
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PART II
VIII. DESCRIPTION
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IX. NARRATION
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X. EXPOSITION
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XI. ARGUMENT
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NEGATIVE
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SUMMARY
APPENDIX
I. ELEMENTS OF FORM
II. REVIEW OF GRAMMAR
VERBS
ADVERBS
PREPOSITIONS
CONJUNCTIONS
SENTENCE STRUCTURE
LIST OF SPECIAL WORDS
III. FIGURES OF SPEECH
EXERCISES
EXERCISES
IV. THE RHETORICAL FEATURES OF THE SENTENCE
EXERCISES
V. LIST OF SYNONYMS