Business letters, 458, 466, 467.
Business transactions, 475.
Completeness in exposition, 198.
Complex sentence, the, 54; rela-
tionships in, 56; use of, 55.
Composition, defined, 1; desire for,
2; kinds of, 24, 189; necessity for,
2; oral, 1; written, 1.
Caleb West, Master Diver, quoted, Composition thought, the, 125.
320.
CALHOUN'S Liberty and Intelligence,
quoted, 258.
can, use of, 577.
Capitalization, 504.
CARLYLE, quoted, Essay on Burns,
110; Hero as Man of Letters, 110.
Case, 556; before participles, 576;
of pronouns, 566, 567.
Catalectic verse, 534.
Character, exposition of, 225.
Characters in story, 413-414.
CHATHAM'S The Right of Taxation,
quoted, 268.
Compound sentence, the, 46-47;
need for, 46; relationships in, 47–
49.
64;
Compound-complex sentence,
use of, 65.
Conclusion, in narration, 368.
Concrete words, 164.
Conditions, exposition of, 212.
Conjugation, 559; formation of, 559-
560.
Conjunctions, classification of, 48-
49, 57-58; coördinate, 48; de-
fined, 555; errors in, 578; selec-
tion of, 82; subordinate, 57.
Chimes, The, quoted, 323, 341, Connotation, defined, 155; in de-
Choice of words, 171.
Christmas Banquet, The, quoted, 192.
Chronological order, in exposition,
203; in narration, 365.
Circumstances, exposition of, 212.
Climax, for emphasis, 85; a figure
of speech, 524; in narration, 359;
in story, 410.
Construction, similar, 83.
Conversation in narration, 374.
Convince, meaning of, 266.
COOPER'S Last of the Mohicans,
quoted, 336, 371.
Coördinate conjunctions, 48.
Cop and the Anthem, The, story by
O. HENRY, 440.
CLODD'S Story of Creation, quoted, Couplet, 537.
381.
Closing, in letters, participial, 451;
complimentary, 452.
Coherence, 13; in argument, 275;
in description, 326; in exposi-
tion, 205; in narration, 353; in
paragraph, 112; in sentence, 79;
in story, 410; in whole composi-
tion, 136.
Colloquialisms, 173.
Colon, the, 512.
Comma, the, 508.
Comparison, adjectives and adverbs,
561-563; awkward, 570.
CREASY'S Fifteen Decisive Battles of
the World, quoted, 327, 328, 364.
Criticism, 235; illustrated, 237.
DANA's Two Years Before the Mast,
quoted, 244, 325, 385.
Dash, the, 514.
DAUDET, quoted, 104.
David Copperfield, quoted, 345.
Debate, kinds of, 297; form of, 298;
questions for, 299.
Comparisons, in description, 317; Declarative sentence, the, 69.
Complements, the, 563-564.
Deduction in argument, 293.
Definition of words, 166.
DEFOE'S Robinson Crusoe, quoted, | Emphasis, 14; in argument, 275;
36.
Denotation, defined, 165; in de-
Description, 24, 189, 304; and ex-
position, 305; and other forms,
342; choice of words in, 330;
coherence in, 322; direct, 319;
emphasis in, 322; force in, 309;
formal, 342; indirect, 319; in-
formal, 343; in story, 413; method
in, 317; of individuals, 334; plans
in, 310, 311, 312, 339; point of
view in, 308; unity in, 322.
Descriptive exposition, 218.
Destruction of the Carnatic, quoted,
362.
Diacritical marks, 485.
Diæresis, the, 516.
Diagrams, in exposition, 204.
DICKENS' The Chimes, quoted, 323,
341, 356; David Copperfield, 345;
Hard Times, 325.
Dictionary, the, 172, 483.
Didactic story, the, 414.
differentia, 166.
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in description, 325; in exposition,
205; in narration, 353; in para-
graph, 112; in sentence, 84; in
story, 410; in whole composition,
136.
Enumerative exposition, 207.
Epithet, 525.
Errors, common, adjectives, 569;
adverbs, 577; conjunctions, 578;
exercises in, 580; nouns, 565;
prepositions, 578; pronouns, 566;
verbs, 572.
Essay on Burns, quoted, 110.
Essay on Milton, quoted, 111, 116.
Ethan Brand, quoted, 315.
Euphemism, 524.
Exclamation point, the, 508.
Exclamatory sentence, the, 70.
Experience, value of, 3.
Experimental Psychology, quoted, 217.
Explanatory expressions, position of,
85.
Exposition, 24, 189; adaptation in,
196; and description, 305; choice
of words in, 197; chronological,
203; clearness in, 196; coherence
in, 205; completeness in, 198;
diagrams in, 204; emphasis in,
205; enumerative, 203; first req-
uisites in, 196; importance of,
194; kinds of, 207; method in,
202; unity in, 198; use of, 193.
Expository narration, 379.
Fact, argument of, 263.
Fall of the House of Usher, quoted,
324.
Feet, in poetry, 529–530.
few and less, use of, 571.
Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World,
quoted, 327, 328, 364.
Figures, in description, 327; of
speech, 520.
Five guiding queries, 15.
"Fog Warning" (picture), 252.
Generic and specific, titles, 7; words, Iambus, the, 530.
genus, 166.
Gerund, the, 559.
Gettysburg, quoted, 37.
Governor and the Notary, The, story by
IRVING, 420.
Grammar, common errors in, 565;
definitions of parts of speech, 551;
properties of parts of speech, 555;
relations of parts of speech, 563.
Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Cen-
tury, quoted, 230.
Illustrations, "Fog Warning," 252;
"Landscape with Windmill," 349;
"There's No Place Like Home,"
193; "Wake Up," 398; for ex-
pository exercises, 249-250.
Imagination, in description, 313.
Immortality of Good Deeds, quoted, 257.
Imperative sentence, the, 70.
Impression in description, 309.
Impressionistic story, 415.
Improprieties, 173.
in and into, use of, 579.
GREEN's Short History of the English Incident, story of, 414.
Mechanical details in writing, 146.
MEEKINS' Freckles, 416.
MERIMEE's The Taking of the Re-
doubt, 435.
Metaphor, the, 521; mixed, 522;
negative, 521.
Meter, 529.
Method in explanation, 202.
Metonymy, 523.
MILTON'S L' Allegro, quoted, 185.
L' Allegro, quoted, 185.
"Landscape with Windmill (pic- Mode, 558.
Last of the Mohicans, quoted, 336, 371.
Lavengro, quoted, 328.
LEE's Great Englishmen of the Six-
teenth Century, quoted, 230.
less and few, use of, 571.
Letters: address, 450; body, 451;
closing, 451, 452; form, 448, 457;
formal, 467-471; general advice,
458; heading, 449; illustrative,
448, 461-471; kinds of, 447; parts
of, 448; punctuation in, 454-456;
salutation, 451; signature, 453.
Letter writing, 447.
Liberty and Intelligence, quoted, 258.
like and as, use of, 578.
Lily of the Valley, quoted, 344.
Limiting the subject, 6.
Modifiers, in sentences, 564; proper
placing of, 80.
Monna Lisa, from PATER's Leonardo
da Vinci, quoted, 182.
Monometer, 532.
Movement in narration, 354.
Murder of Thomas à Becket, The,
quoted, 139.
Narration, 24, 189, 353; and other
forms, 366; coherence in, 353; con-
clusion in, 368; emphasis in, 353;
introduction in, 368; kinds of, 378-
389; order in, 365; plan in, 357;
point of view in, 372; unity in, 353.
Naturalness in expression, 145.
LINCOLN'S Speeches, quoted, 258, Negative, double, 578.
Literary Digest, quoted, 224.
Local-color story, 415.
Lochinvar, quoted, 398.
LONGFELLOW's Gudrun, quoted, 38.
Loose sentence, 71.
Lorna Doone, quoted, 104.
neither, and either use of, 570.
Newspaper narration, 388.
nice, use of, 571.
Noun, the, 551; errors in, 565.
Nouns in narration, 355.
Nouradin, quoted, 155.
Number, 556, 559.
Paragraph outline, 131; illustrated, Prefix, 485.
Paragraphs, transitional, 137.
Paragraph thought, 94.
Preposition, the, 554; errors in, 578.
Principle, argument of, 264.
Process, exposition of, 215.
Parallel (or balanced) sentence, the, Pronoun, the, 551; errors in, 566–569;
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