INDEX

Æsthetics defined, [34];
æsthetic elements, [35].
Allegory, [71].
Alliteration, [114].
Analogy, argument from, [172].
Anglo-Saxon and Latin elements of English, [56].
Annals, [158].
Antithesis, [75].
Apostrophe, [73].
Argumentation, [87];
four kinds of, [172].
Artistic element in literature, [8].
Author and his work, [19];
personality of, [19];
mental qualities of, [19];
character of, [20];
view of life of, [22];
literary school of, [24];
mood and purpose of, [24];
life of, [27].
Autobiographic elements in literature, [21].
Autobiography, [162].
Ballad defined, [134].
Beauty, [35].
Biography, [160];
three types of, [161];
essentials of, [161].
Blank verse, [117].
Cæsura, [118].
Character and authorship, [21].
Chronicle, [158].
Classic writers, [4].
Climax, [75].
Comedy, [148].
Criticism, defined, [2];
history of, [3];
standard of, [3];
requisites of, [4];
as an art, [5];
diversity of, [5];
diversity of, explained, [6];
utility of, [7];
materials of, [8].
Description, [35], [42], [85].
Diary, [162].
Diction, [58].
Discourse, kinds of, [84].
Drama, [148-153];
unity of, [149];
five principal parts, [150];
other elements, [150].
Dramatis personae, [151].
Elegy, [137].
Eloquence, source of, [169].
English language, composite, [55];
copious, [56];
elements of, [56];
what elements to choose, [57].
Enjambement, [118].
Epic poetry, [146];
different species of, [147];
mock epic, [147].
Epigram, [76].
Essay, [167];
principal forms of, [167];
criteria of, [168].
Exclamation, [73].
Exposition, [87].
Fable, [72].
Faculties, symmetrical, [92].
Farce, [149].
Felicity of expression, [38].
Fiction, defined, [178];
elements of, [181];
characters of, [182];
incidents of, [182];
environment in, [183];
plot in, [183];
aim of, [184];
view of life of, [184];
kinds of, [184];
society novel, [185];
local novel, [185];
historical novel, [186];
problem or purpose novel, [187];
love story, [188];
marine novel, [189];
psychologic novel, [189];
short story, [190].
Figures, defined, [68];
kinds of, [68];
of resemblance, [69];
of contrast, [75].
Harmony of thought and expression, [37].
Heroism, [41].
History, defined, [156];
divisions of, [157];
methods of, [158];
criteria of, [163].
Humor, [46].
Hymns, [135].
Hyperbole, [74].
Idealism, [180].
Imagination, [89];
ill-governed, [90].
Interrogation, [76].
Irony, [77].
Life, an author's view of, [22].
Literary school, [24].
Love in literature, [40];
love story, [188].
Ludicrous, the, in literature, [44].
Matter and form in literature, [9].
Metaphor, [70].
Meter, [111], [116].
Metonymy, [72].
Mind, generic differences of, [88].
Mock epic, [147].
Molding influences in literature, [8].
Moral character, [20];
moral sublime, [43].
Narration, [86].
Necessity of understanding a work, [1].
Novel and romance, [178].
See [Fiction].
Ode defined, [136].
Opera, [149].
Oration, divisions of, [170];
criteria of, [174].
Oratory, [169];
different kinds of, [170].
Parable, [72].
Paragraph, [62].
Parody, [45].
Period in verse, [118].
Personification, [70].
Poet, the, [105];
as seer, [106].
Poetic license, [120-122].
Poetry, defined, [103];
and prose, [104];
sources of, [104];
classification of, [130];
didactic, [130];
descriptive, [132];
pastoral, [133];
lyric, [134];
criteria of, [138];
epic, [145].
Prose and poetry, [104];
defined, [156].
Purpose of literary study, [1].
Realism, [179].
Rhyme, [112];
different kinds of, [112-114].
Romance, metrical, [147];
defined, [178].
See [Fiction].
Romanticism, [179].
Satire, [45], [131].
Sensibilities in ascendant, [90].
Sentences, different kinds of, [60];
qualities of, [61].
Simile, [69].
Song defined, [135].
Sonnet, [137].
Spiritual truth, [39].
Stanza, defined, [115];
different kinds of, [115-117].
Style, [61];
defined, [84];
importance of, [94];
poetic, [120].
Synecdoche, [72].
Tale, metrical, [147];
of adventure, [188].
Taste, literary, [34].
Tenderness and pathos, [43].
Tragedy, [148].
Tragi-comedy, [148].
Versification, defined, [107];
quantity in, [107];
accent in, [107];
poetic feet in, [108-110];
time element in, [111];
meter in, [111].
Vision, [74].
Will, force of, in literature, [91].