in verse, II. 82.

ACCURACY,-A quality of language,

II. 11.

ALEXANDRINE, A verse consisting of six regular feet, II. 89. ALLEGORY,-A figure of language, involving a continuous comparison, II. 26. ALLITERATION,-Initial rhyme, II. 39. AMBIGUITY,- A double meaning in

volved in the construction of a sentence, I. 28; II. 31. ANALYSIS, -The division of a sentence into its primary elements, I. 28. ANAPESTIC VERSE,-II. 92. ANTEPENULTIMATE,-The second syllable before the last in a word, II. 40. ANTI-CLIMAX,-The converse of climax: a sentence in which the ideas suddenly become less dignified at the close, II. 34. ANTITHESIS,-A contrast of words or ideas in successive clauses or sentences, I. 30; II. 34. APODOSIS,-The conclusion in a hypothetical sentence, answering to the protasis.

APOSTROPHE, A figure of language, in which the speaker turns aside from the natural course of his ideas to address the absent or the dead, as if they were present, II. 26. ARGUMENTATIVE THEME, A theme in which a position is supported by formal arguments, II. 71. ATTRIBUTE,-The enlargement of the subject or object, I. 10.

BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATION,-In paragraphs, I. 59; in themes, II. 56. CATACHRESIS, An over-strained or far-fetched metaphor-as the blood of the grape.

DESCRIPTION,-An account of what a thing is, I. 63; II. 63. DIMETER,-A verse consisting of two feet or measures, II. 83. DIRECT SPEECH,-I. 21. DISCURSIVE THEME,―The essay, II. 66. DISLOCATION,-The unnatural separation of the members of a sentence, I. 28; II. 31.

ELEGIAC STANZA,-Four lines of simple regular pentameters, rhyming alternately, II. 88.

ELLIPSIS,-The omission of words necessary to the completeness of a sentence, I. 30; II. 35.

ENERGY, A quality of style, by which a forcible impression is produced, II. 10.

to a sentence to express additional ideas, I. 16.

EPIGRAM,-A figure of language, involving an apparent contradiction,

II. 27.

EQUIVOCATION,-A double meaning involved in the language of a sentence,

II. 14.

ESSAY, A discursive theme, II. 66. EUPHEMISM, Anallowable circumlocution, employed to soften a harsh statement, II. 21. EXCLAMATION,-A figure of construction, II. 34.

EXPANSION,-An amplification of the expression, without adding to the ideas expressed, I. 13. EXPOSITION,-The description of scientific or abstract truths, I. 72; II. 66.

GRACE, A quality of style, by which a pleasing effect is produced, II. 10. HEPTAMETER,-A verse consisting of seven feet or measures, II. 83. HEROIC MEASURE,-Simple regular pentameter verse, II. 88.

HEXAMETER,

-A verse consisting of six feet or measures, II. 83. HISTORICAL NARRATION,

In paragraphs, I. 57; in themes, II. 60. HYPERBOLE,-A figure of language, producing its effects by exaggeration, II. 27.

IAMBIC VERSE,-II. 88.

INCIDENTAL NARRATION,

In para

II. 37. METAPHOR,

A figure of language, involving comparison, II. 25. METONYMY,-A figure of language, in which correlative terms are interchanged, II. 26. NARRATION.--An accouut of a course of events, I. 49; II. 53. OBJECT,-The complement of a transitive verb, I. 10.

OBSOLETE WORDS,-Words which no longer belong to the current speech, II. 23.

PARAGRAPH,-A connected series of sentences relating to the same subject, I. 47.

PARAPHRASE, The rendering of a thought in a different form, I. 72. -PAUSE, The point in a verse where the rhythm is suspended, II. 86. PENTAMETER,-A verse consisting of five feet or measures, II. 83. PENULTIMATE,-The syllable before the last in a word, II. 40, 84. PERIOD,A sentence in which the complete sense is suspended until the close, I. 30; II. 33. PERSONIFICATION,-A figure of language, in which the lower animals and inanimate objects are endowed with the powers of human beings, II. 26. PERSPICUITY, A quality of style, by which a writer's meaning is rendered clear and intelligible, II. 10. PHRASE,-A form of words expressing a single idea, but not containing a subject or predicate, I. 10. PLEONASM,-An allowable redundancy, II. 20.

PRÉCIS,-See Summary, I. 79. PREDICATE, That part of a sentence which makes a statement about the subject, I. 10.

PREPOSITION POSTPONED,-A fault of construction, I, 31; II. 35. PROPOSITION,-The statement of the question in an argumentative theme, II. 72.

PROTASIS, The premises, or condition

in a hypothetical sentence, answer-
ing to the apodosis.
PUNCTUATION, The use of points to
indicate the separation and con-
nexion of the members of a sen-
tence, I. 24.

PURITY, A quality of language, II.

21.

REDUNDANCY,-The addition of words
which the sense does not require,
I. 32; II. 20.
REFLECTION,-An account of thoughts
and emotions excited in the mind,
I. 49; II. 53.
RIIETORIC,-The science of the expres-
sion of thought, I. 9; II. 9, 71.
RHYME,-The correspondence of one
verse with another in final sound,
II. 83.

RHYTHM,-In verse, the recurrence of
stress or accent at regular intervals,
II. 82; in prose, at variable inter-
vals, II. 37.

ROMANTIC MEASURE,-Simple regular
tetrameter verse, II. 90.

SCHEME-MAKING,-Directions for, II.

SYNTHESIS,-The building up of ele-
ments into a sentence, I. 28.

TAUTOLOGY,-The repetition of the

same word in a different sense in
the same sentence or paragraph,
II. 21.
TENNYSONIAN STANZA,-II. 91.
TETRAMETER,-A verse consisting of
four feet or measures, II. 83.
THEME,-A connected series of para-
graphs: a complete prose com-
position, I. 9; II. 53.
TRANSPOSITION, The process of
changing the construction of a
sentence, without altering the
sense, I. 19.

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TRIMETER, Α verse consisting of
three feet or measures, II. 83.
TROCHAIC VERSE,-II. 97.

UNITY, Singleness of subject in a
sentence or paragraph, I. 47;
II. 29.

VARIETY,-Diversity in the construc-
tion of successive sentences, I.
47.

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