QUALITIES OF STYLE.

INVENTION.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

RHETORIC.

I. Construction of Simple and Compound Sentences, and of
Complex Sentences with Adj., Adv., or Noun Clauses, and
with Clauses Complex or Compound.

II. Forming of Paragraphs.

III. Analysis of Subjects.

IV. Preparation of Frameworks.

1. Mastery of the Subject.

a. Simple.

2. Use of Words.

b. Precise. C.

Unambiguous. d. Repu-
table, National, and Pres-
ent. e. Moderate Num-
ber. f. Sufficient Number.

3. Arrangement of Words, Phrases, and Clauses.

4. Unity of the Sentence.

1. The Comparison, or Simile.

2. The Meta-

phor. 3. Personification. 4. Antithesis. 5.
The Metonymy. 6. The Synecdoche.

(1. Specific Words. 2. Transposed Order of
Words and Phrases. 3. Omission of Words.
4. Idioms, Proverbs, and apt Quotations.
5. The Climax. 6. The Period. 7. Variety.

I. Satire. 2. Sarcasm. 3. Ridicule. 4. Irony.
5. Humor.

VI. Elegance (1. Beauty of the Thought. 2. Euphony. 3. Allit-
eration. 4. Flowing Sentences. 5. Rhythm.

(Secured by)....)

RHETORIC.

LESSON 1.

INTRODUCTORY.

WHAT RHETORIC IS.-We talk and we write to make known our thoughts, and we do it in sentences, the sentence being the universal and necessary form of oral and of written communication. In every sentence there are the words arranged in a certain order and addressed to the ear or to the eye; and there is that which these words express and impart, itself unheard and unseen, but reaching the mind of the hearer or reader through the words which he hears or sees. That which these words express we call a thought, and hence

A sentence is the verbal expression of a thought.

Now, rhetoric deals with the thought of the sentence and with the words which express it, and so its function is twofold. It teaches us how to find the thought, and how best to express it in words. In this, its twofold function, rhetoric works near neighbor to grammar and to logic. Grammar, as well as rhetoric, deals with the words of a sentence; and logic, as well as rhetoric, deals with thought; but the fields of the three, though lying side by side, are distinct.

The better to see the field which rhetoric tills, it is