English: Composition and Literature

by W. F. Webster

[Chapter VIII.—Sentences]

• [Definition and Classification. Simple Sentences]
• [Compound Sentences]
• [Short Sentences]
• [Long Sentences]
• [Unity]
• [xvii] [Mass]
• [End of a Sentence]
• [Effect of Anti-climax]
• [Use of Climax]
• [Loose and Periodic]
• [The Period]
• [Periodic and Loose combined]
• [Which shall be used?]
• [Emphasis by Change of Order]
• [Subdue Unimportant Elements]
• [The Dynamic Point of a Sentence]
• [Good Use]
• [Clearness gained by Coherence]
• [Parallel Construction]
• [Balanced Sentences]
• [Use of Connectives]
• [Suggestive Questions]

[Chapter IX.—Words]

• [Need of a Large Vocabulary]
• [Dictionary]
• [Study of Literature]
• [Vulgarisms are not reputable]
• [Slang is not reputable]
• [Words must be National. Provincialisms]
• [Technical and Bookish Words]
• [Foreign Words]
• [Words in Present Use]
• [Words in their Present Meaning]
• [Words of Latin and Saxon Origin]
• [General and Specific]
• [Use Words that suggest most]
• [Synecdoche, Metonymy]
• [Care in Choice of Specific Words]
• [Avoid Hackneyed Phrases]
• [“Fine Writing”]
• [In Prose avoid Poetical Words]

[Chapter X.—Figures of Speech]

• [Figurative Language]
• [Figures based upon Likeness]
• [Metaphor]
• [Epithet]
• [Personification]
• [xviii] [Apostrophe]
• [Allegory]
• [Simile]
• [Figures based upon Sentence Structure]
• [Inversion]
• [Exclamation]
• [Interrogation]
• [Climax]
• [Irony]
• [Metonymy]
• [Synecdoche]
• [Allusion]
• [Hyperbole]
• [Exercises in Figures]

[Chapter XI.—Verse Forms]

• [Singing Verse]
• [Poetic Feet]
• [Kinds of Metre]
• [Stanzas]
• [Scansion]
• [Variations in Metres]
• [First and Last Foot]
• [Kinds of Poetry]
• [Exercises in Metres]

APPENDIX

1. [Suggestions to Teachers]
2. [The Form of a Composition]
3. [Marks for Correction of Compositions]
4. [Punctuation]
5. [Supplementary List of Literature]