ALEXANDRINE,-A verse consisting of | six feet, sometimes excessive, 129. ALLEGORY,-A continuous metaphor. A composition in which the subject is represented by successive metaphors. ANALYSIS, The division of a sentence into its primary elements, 30. ANTEPENULTIMATE,-The syllable before the penultimate, in a word, 124. ANTI-CLIMAX,-An inverted climax. A sentence in which the ideas become less important and dignified at the close.

ANTITHESIS,-A contrast of words or ideas in successive clauses, or successive sentences. APODOSIS,―The principal number of a double period, such as a hypothetical sentence: the conclusion, answering to the protasis, 37. APOSTROPHE,-A variety of personification, in which the inanimate and the absent are addressed as if they were alive and present, 58. ATTRIBUTE, The enlargement of the subject or object, 14.

CATACHRESIS,-An over-strained or far-fetched figure of language, as, the blood of the grape. CIRCUMLOCUTION

or PERIPHRASIS,— The use of more words than are required for the adequate expression of an idea, 53. CLAUSE,-A member of a sentence which contains a subject and predicate within itself, 15. CLIMAX,

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-A sentence containing a series of statements rising by regular gradation from the weakest to the strongest. A figure of construction, 41.

ELEGIAC STANZA,- Four lines of simple regular pentameters, rhyming alternately, 128. ELLIPSIS, The omission of words necessary to the accurate expression of ideas, 50.

ENERGY, The quality of a sentence by which a forcible and vivid impression is produced, 29, 53. ENLARGEMENT, The addition of words to express additional ideas,20. EQUIVOCAL WORD,-A word which may admit of more than one meaning, 47. EUPHEMISM,-Circumlocution used to soften a harsh statement, 53. EXCLAMATORY PROPOSITION,-A statement made in the form of an exclamation. A figure of construction, 30.

EXPANSION,-An amplification of the expression without adding to the ideas expressed, 17.

tially agrees with others of the same
species, 72.

GRACE, The quality of a sentence by
which a pleasing effect is produced,
29, 59.

HEPTAMETER,-A verse consisting of
seven feet or measures, 132.
HEROIC MEASURE, Simple regular
pentameter verse, 128.
HEXAMETER,-A verse consisting of
six feet or measures, 140, 141,
note.

HYPERBOLE,-A figure of language
which expresses much more
less than the truth.

INTERROGATIVE

or

A

PROPOSITION,
statement made in the form of a
question. A figure of construction,
30.

IRONY,-A figure of language in which
the meaning conveyed is the con-
trary of that expressed.

METAPHOR,-A figure of comparison
in which no sign of comparison is
used, 55.
METONYMY,-A figure of language by
which correlative terms are inter-
changed, 58.

NARRATION, An account of what
happens, or is seen, 67.

OBJECT,-The complement of a tran-
sitive verb, 14.

PARAGRAPH,-A series of sentences
relating to the same subject, or
part of a subject, 67.
PARAPHRASE,-The process of con-
verting a sentence from the con-
crete to the abstract form, or from
the abstract to the concrete,
61.
PAUSE, That point in a verse where

the rhythm is interrupted, 126.
PENTAMETER,-A verse consisting of
five feet or measures, 128.
PENULTIMATE,-The syllable before
the last in a word, 124.

PERSONIFICATION, or PROSOPOPOEÏA,-
A figure of comparison, by which
the lower animals and inanimate
objects are endowed with the
powers of human beings, special-
Îy with the power of speech, 58.
PERSPICUITY, The quality of a sen-
tence which renders it clearly in-
telligible, 29, 47.

PHRASE, A form of words containing
no subject or predicate, 14.
PLEONASM, An allowable redun-
dancy, 49, note.
PRÉCIS,-See Summary, 79.
PREDICATE,-The part of a sentence
which makes a statement, 14.
PROPOSITION,-The statement of the
question in an argumentative
theme, 111.
PROSOPOPOEIA,-See Personification.
PROTASIS,-The subordinate member
of a double period, such as a by-
pothetical sentence, the premiss,
or condition, answering to the
apodosis, 37.

PUNCTUATION,-The art of indicating,
by means of points, what members
of a sentence are to be conjoined,
and what members separated in
meaning, 29.

REDUNDANCY,-The repetition of the
same idea in different words, 49.
REFLECTION,-An account of thoughts
and emotions excited in the mind,
74.
RHETORIC,-The science of the ex-
pression of thought, 13.
RHYME,-The correspondence of one
verse with another in final sound,
123.

RHYTHM,-The recurrence in a verse
of stress or accent, at regular inter-
vals of duration, 122.
ROMANTIC MEASURE,-Simple regular
tetrameter verse, 130.

SENTENCE,-Words expressing a com-
plete thought, 14.

SIMILE, A figure of comparison, in
which the sign of comparison (as,
like) is employed, 55.

SONNET,-The Italian stanza, 129. SPENSERIAN STANZA,-P. 129. SUBJECT,―The part of a sentence which names the thing about which a statement is made, 14. SUBSTITUTION,-The process of writing in the place of one word or phrase, another of the same, or similar meaning, 21. SUMMARY,-A selection of the essen

tial features of an extended composition or series of papers: A précis, 79.

SYNECDOCHE, The figure which puts a part for the whole, or the whole for a part, 58. SYNONYMS, Words whose generic meaning is similar, but whose specific meanings are different, 47.

SYNTHESIS,―The building up of elements into a sentence, 29, 30.

TAUTOLOGY,-The unnecessary repetition of a word or words in the same sentence, or paragraph, 54. TENNYSONIAN STANZA,-P. 131. TETRAMETER,-A verse consisting of four feet, or measures, 122. THEME,-A series of paragraphs discussing the different parts of a subject; a complete prose composition, 13, 97. TRANSPOSITION,- The process of changing the order and construction of a sentence, without altering the sense, 22. TRIMETER, -A verse consisting of three feet, or measures, 122.