English: Composition and Literature

by W. F. Webster

• Palmer, Professor G. H., quotations from, on composition writing, [101], [112].
• “Paradise Lost,” quotations from, [241], [245], [248].
• Paragraphs, [151]-[195].
• Parallel construction, [192]-[194], [226], [227].
• Particulars in exposition, [96];
  • paragraph of, [163].
• Penmanship, [300].
• Pentameter, [274].
• “Pepacton,” [9];
  • quotations from, [158], [160].
• Period, [308].
• Periodic sentences, [212]-[216].
• Personification, [77], [260].
• Persuasion, [4].
• Philippians iv. [8], [241].
• “Physical Basis of Life,” Huxley’s, quotations from, [98], [161].
• “Pierre et Jean,” quotation from, [55].
• “Pilgrim’s Progress,” [13].
• Place of a story, [29].
• Plot, [15]-[20], [36].
• Poe, Edgar Allan, his sentences, [33];
  • his use of description in “The Fall of the House of Usher,” [34];
  • quotations from that work, [68], [71];
  • “Annabel Lee” quoted, [271], [278], [279].
• Poetic feet, [272].
• Poetical words, [254].
• Poetry, kinds of, [284]-[286].
• Point of view, [56]-[59];
  • change of, [58];
  • mental, [59].
• Position of words in sentences, [217].
• “Præterita,” Ruskin’s, quotations from, [169].
• Premises, [129];
  • false, [131].
• “Present Position of Catholics in England,” Newman’s, quotation from, [177].
• Present usage of words, [244], [245].
• “Prince Otto,” quotations from, [72], [73].
• “Princess, The,” quotation from, [251].
• Pronouns, use of, [188], [189].
• Proportion in description, [73];
  • in exposition, [104]-[108], [114];
  • in paragraphs, [179].
• “Prose Fancies,” [10].
• Provincialisms, [242].
• Purpose, of an author, [6], [7];
  • in description, [59]-[62].

• Quotation marks, [308].
• “Quo Vadis,” [7].

• Rapidity of movement, [32].
• “Reform Bill,” quotation from Macaulay’s speech on, [193].
• Refutation in argument, [141].
• Repetition, its value, [94];
  • paragraph of, [167].
• Reputable words, [239]-[241].
• “Richard Feverel,” quotations from, [161], [205].
• “Richelieu,” quotation from, [241].
• “Robinson Crusoe,” has little plot, [16].
• Royce, Josiah, quotation from, [242].
• Ruskin, John, [49];
  • quotation to illustrate building up a paragraph, [169];
  • his “Sesame and Lilies,” [239].

• Saxon words, [245]-[248].
• Scale of treatment, [104]-[108].
• Scansion, [275]-[284];
  • requisites for scanning, [283], [284].
• “Science of English Verse, The,” quotation from, [273].
• Scott, Sir Walter, as a story-teller in the [317] third person, [27];
  • his dull introductory chapters, [31];
  • “The Lady of the Lake” quoted, [269];
  • “Marmion” quoted, [276].
• Selection of material in narration, [21]-[28];
  • in description, [56]-[62];
  • in exposition, [102]-[104];
  • in argument, [138].
• “Self-Cultivation in English,” quotation from, [101], [112].
• Semicolons, [202], [203], [305], [306].
• Sentences, [200]-[230];
  • simple and compound, [200], [201];
  • long or short, [204], [205].
• Sequence of events, [29], [30].
• Serial arrangement of paragraph, [181]-[188].
• “Sesame and Lilies,” [239].
• Sienkiewicz, Henry, his “Quo Vadis,” [7].
• “Silas Marner,” written for a purpose, [13];
  • example of a plot, [20];
  • time consumed in the story, [36];
  • quotation to show paragraph length, [152]-[156].
• Simile, [77], [261].
• Sing-song, natural tendency toward, [269], [276].
• Slang, [240].
• Slowness of movement, [33].
• “Snow-Bound,” narrative or descriptive?, [4].
• Song defined, [285].
• Sonnet defined, [285].
• Specific words, [248]-[252].
• Spencer, Herbert, on the philosophy of the periodic sentence, [212].
• Spenser, Edmund, “The Faerie Queene” quoted, [281].
• “Spirit of Modern Philosophy,” Royce’s, quotation from, [242].
• Spondee, [273].
• Stanza, [275].
• Stedman, E. C., an authority on literature, [9].
• Stevenson, Robert Louis, his “Treasure Island” and “Travels with a Donkey” as narratives, [4];
  • quotation from “Kidnapped,” [15];
  • his “An Autumn Effect” quoted, [17];
  • unity in his stories, [27];
  • descriptions from, quoted, [62], [72];
  • examples of personification from, [77];
  • his unusual use of words, [79];
  • quotation to show paragraph structure, [165].
• Subdual of subordinate parts, [219].
• Subject, [8]-[12];
  • common, [11];
  • interesting, [11];
  • in exposition, [99], [100].
• Suggestion vs. enumeration, [52].
• Suggestions to teachers, [257]-[260].
• Suggestive description, [55].
• Summary, a, [119].
• Superlatives, [80].
• Syllogism, [129]-[132].
• Synecdoche, [250], [263].

• “Tannenbaum,” [12].
• Technical words, [242].
• Tennyson, Lord, quotations from, [51], [251], [283].
• Terms of syllogism, [129], [130].
• Testimony, [136].
• Tetrameter, [274].
• Thackeray, W. M., quotation from, [157].
• Theme in exposition, [100], [101].
• “Three Fishers, The,” quotation from, [271].
• “Tiger, Tiger,” quotation from, [283].
• Time of story, [35].
• Title in exposition, [102].
• “To W. L. Garrison,” quotation from, [89].
• Topic-sentence, [157];
  • its position, [157]-[161].
• Tragedy, [286].
• Transitions, [118], [119].
• “Travels with a Donkey,” narrative or descriptive? [4];
  • absence of plot, [17];
  • quotations from, [62], [65], [157].
• “Treasure Island,” a narrative, [4];
  • plot simple, [16].
• Trimeter, [274].
• Trochee, defined, [272];
  • interchangeable with dactyl, [278].
• Type-form of paragraph, [162].

• “Ugly Duckling, The,” [25].
• Undistributed middle, [131].
• Unity, [20];
  • in narration, [21], [22];
  • in description, [56]-[64];
  • in exposition, [102], [103];
  • in argument, [138];
  • in paragraphs, [173];
  • in sentences, [205].
• “Uses of Astronomy, The,” quotation from, [72].

• Value of observation, [55].
• “Vanity Fair,” example of a plot, [19];
  • quotation from, [157].
• Variations in metre, [276]-[284].
• Verbs in description, [79].
• Verne, Jules, [12].
• Verse, a, definition of, [273];
  • how named, [275].
• Verse forms, [269]-[291].
• “Village Blacksmith, The,” quotation from, [279], [280].
• “Vision of Sir Launfal, The,” [13];
  • quotation from, [67].
• Vocabulary, need of, [236].
• Vulgarisms, [240].

• “Wake Robin,” [9].
• Webster, Daniel, quotation from, to illustrate paragraph structure, [176];
  • his use of words, [247].
• “Wee Willie Winkie,” its climax, [21].
• Wendell, Barrett, quotation on printed words from, [94].
• Whittier, John G., his “Barbara Frietchie” and “Snow-Bound” as narratives, [4].
• Wilkins, Miss, small number of characters in her books, [35].
• [318] Wolfe, Charles, “The Burial of Sir John Moore” quoted, [277].
• Words, [235]-[256];
  • choice of, [78], [79], [80], [254]-[260];
  • reputable, [240], [241];
  • national, [242];
  • in present use, [244], [245];
  • Latin and Saxon, [245]-[248];
  • general and specific, [248]-[252].
• “Wordsworth,” Arnold’s essay on, quotations from, [158], [167];
  • “The Daisy” quoted, [274].

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