Joints of structure, 116.

Key of words, The, 104.

KINDS OF PARAGRAPHS, 379.

Landmarks of structure in completed

work, 435.

Latin derivatives, 70.

Length of sentence, Effect of, in diction,
345.

Lengthiness distinguished from length,
141 footnote.
Liberties of fiction, 550.

Life of verse, The, 189.
Limitations of fiction, 550.
Line, The, in poetry, 179 note.
Literary analysis, in exposition, 579;

division, 573.

LITERARY FORM, THE SENSE OF, 390;
division, 573; Types, The (Book v),
475.

Litotes, 105, 271.

Logic, as foundation of rhetoric, 3.
Logical definition, 559; description, 564 ;
division, 569.

Long sentence, The, in diction, 347.
Loose sentence, The, 351.

MAIN IDEAS of discourse, THE, 432.
Manufactured diction, 132.
Mass of sentence, in diction, 350.
MASSING OF sentence ELements for

FORCE, 335.

Material and handling, Problems of, in

description, 479.

Meditation, Habits of, 402.

Medium, The supporting, in story, 530.
Members of division, 571.

Metaphor, 80; in description, 495.

Metaphrase, 585.

Method of residues, The, 625.

Metonymy, 88, 89.

Metre, 171; Relations of phrase and, 208.
Metrical unit, 172; clause, 178; sen-
tence, 183.

Motives, 658; Grades of, 659 note.
Movement, The narrative, 520; Prepara
tive elements in, 525; Continuity of,
520; Rate of, 522.
Musical rhythm, Overtones of, 190.

NARRATION (Chap. xv), 511; Defini-

tion of, 512; THE ART OF, 513;
The end of, 514; convoyed by de-
scription, 533; Discursive, 535; IN
LITERATURE, 543.
Narrative history, 546.

Narrative movement, Aid from, in de-
scription, 503; Continuity of, 520;
Rate of, 522; Preparative elements
in, 525.

Narrative touches, 504.

Narratives, Combination of, 537.
Native elements of vocabulary, 68.
Natural bent, as starting point of inven-
tion, 390.

NEGATION, 268; degrees of, 268.
Negative, Double, 270.

Neologisms, 62.

Newspaper words, 63; criticism, 592.
Non-colloquialisms in poetic diction, 145.
Non sequitur, 628.
Notes, Taking, 418.
Notions, 555.
Novel, The, 552.

Nucleus of description, The, 483.

Observation, The spirit of, 397; sketches
of travel and, 509.

Obverse, The, as repetition, 466; in ex-
position, 567.

Occasion, The response to, 393.
OCCASIONAL DICTION, 118.
Ode stanza, The, 185.

Only, Placing of, 241.

Onomatopoetic words and coloring, 160.
ORATORY, 642; The essence of, 642.
Order, The habit of seeking, 404.

Order of arguments in debate, 639; of
refutation, 641.

PHRASEOLOGY (Chap. viii), 223.
Picturing power of language, in poetic
diction, 146.

Plan, the making of the, 432; append-
ages of, 449; in paragraph, 364.
Pleonasm, 290.

Pliancy of the recitative measures, 197.
Plot, in narration, 517.

Plots, Interwoven, 538.

POETIC DICTION AND ITS INTER-
ACTIONS WITH PROSE (Chap. vi),
139; what it is, 140.

POETIC Rhythm, Elements of, 172.
Poetic setting in diction, 145; TRAITS

IN POETRY AND IN PROSE, 141;
in description, 497.

Poetry, Descriptive, 508.
Polarized words, 152.

Point of view, 481; The traveller's, 506.
Portrayal without detail, 491; Time-

conditioned, 504; Panoramic, 505.
Possessive, The, in poetic diction, 143.
Practical value of figures, 75.

Precision, as aspect of clearness, 29.
Predicate of sentence, 313.

Prefacing statement, 288.
Pregnant words, 93.

Preliminary paragraph, The, 381; ends

in narration, 519.

Premises, 616.

Preparation of question, in debate, 635.

Preparative elements in movement, 525.

Present use of words, 61.

Presentive words, 117.

Principle of division, The, 570.

Progress in plan, Manner of, 439; Nat-
ural stages of, 441.

Prominence, Law of, in retrospective
reference, 250.

Proportion in paragraph, Claims of, 375.
Propositional paragraph, The, 379.
Propositions, Explication of, 578.
Prose, Definition of, 107; THE AP-
PROACHES OF, TO POETRY, 163,
THE RHYTHM OF, 210.

Prose arrangement, 113; connection
of words, 115; vocabulary, 109;
RHYTHM, 210.

PROSE DICTION (Chap. v), 107; STAND-
ARD, 109; AS DETERMINED
BY OCCASION, 118; Intellectual
type of, 164; Impassioned type
of, 166; Imaginative type of,
168.

PROSPECTIVE REFERENCE, 254.
Provincialisms, 55.

Proximity, The law of, in retrospective

reference, 250.

Punctuation, Office of, in sentence, 325;

present status of, 333.

Purity, as standard of diction, 44.
Purpose, in narrative, 518.

QUALITIES OF STYLE (Chap. ii), 27.
Qualities, temperament of, 41; of sound,
Language employed for, 153.
Question, preparation of the, in debate,
635.

Quotation, in amplification, 471.

Raconteur, The professional, and his
stories, 516.

Rapidity, condensation for, 299.
Rate of narrative movement, 522.
Reading, Ways of, in invention, 408;

Creative, 409; for discipline, 411;
Compendious, 413; broadly and
deeply, 415; by topics, 415; Dis-
posal of results of, 417.
Realism, in fiction, 552.
Recitative measures in rhythm, 174;

Pliancy of the, 197.

Reductio ad absurdum, 623.

Redundancy, 290.

REFERENCE, RETROSPECTIVE, 246;

PROSPECTIVE, 254; Explicit, in
paragraph, 370; Implicit, 372.
References and citations, 419.

Refrain, in poetry, 184.

Refutation, 626; Order of, in debate, 641.

Relation and arrangement, Principles of,
438; with audience, in oratory, 645.
Relative, Connotation of the, 236; equiv-
alents for, 239.

REPETITION, 302; in disguise, 305; of
construction, 308; in amplification,
465.

Repose, The element of, 42.

Reproduction of thought, Forms of, 582.
Reserve, or understatement, 105.
Residues, The method of, 625.
Results of reading, Disposal of, 417.
Retarded movement, in narration, 522.
RETROSPECTIVE REFERENCE, 246.
Revery contrasted with meditation, 403.
Rhetoric, Definition of, 1; distinguished
from grammar, 2; distinguished
from logic, 3; as adaptation, I; as
art, 4; two kinds of, 5; Province
and distribution of, 8.

Rhyme, 158; in prose diction, 158.
RHYTHM, IN POETRY AND IN PROSE

(Chap. vii), 171; Poetic, elements of,
172; Musical overtones of, 190;
Phrasal undertone of, 202; OF
PROSE, THE, 210; as accessory of
description, 498.
Romance and novel, 551.

Saxon derivatives, 70.
Scenic history, 547-

SCHOLARLY USE of words, 68.
Science and art discriminated, 4.
Segmentation, The phrasal, 204.
Selection, The problem of, in description,
479; in abstract, 583.

Self-culture, The support FROM,
in invention, 396.
Semicolon, The, 326.
Semicoloned clauses, 323.

SENSE OF LITERARY FORM, THE, 390.
SENTENCE, THE (Chap. x), 311; Defini-

tion of, 311; ORGANISM OF, 312;
in prose rhythm, 218; Types of, 316;
IN DICTION, 345.

Sequence, in plan headings, 440.

Sequential conjunctions, 267.

Setting, Influence of poetic, in diction,

145.

Shades of meaning, 47.

Shall and will, 233.

Short sentence, The, in diction, 345.
Sign, Argument from, 611.

Similarity and contrast, Law of, in
thought-association, 444.

Simile, 77; in description, 494.
Simplex type of sentence, 317.
Sing-song, Tendency to, 211.
Situations, in narration, 519.
Skeleton outline, The, 433.
Sonnet, The, 188.

Sound, Language employed for qualities
of, 153.

Sounds in sequence and repetition, 156.
Spenserian stanza, The, 188.
Split infinitive, The, 230.
Splitting of particles, 301.
Spoken diction, 118.

Stages of progress in plan, Natural,

441.

STANDARD PROSE DICTION, 109.
Stanza, The, in poetic rhythm, 183; un-

rhymed, 184; ode, 185; elegiac, 186;
hymn, 187; Spenserian, 188.

Stock expressions, 73.

Stress, Concentration of, in collocation,
243; Dynamic, 340.

Stress-point as a cue, 340.
Strophe, 185.

Structure, Landmarks of, in completed
work, 435.

Style, as division of rhetoric, 9; IN

GENERAL (Book i), 13; NATURE
AND BEARINGS OF (Chap. i), 16;
Definition of, 16; and the thought,
18; and the man, 19; Adjust-
ments of, 20; Qualities of (Chap.
ii), 27.

Subconscious mental action, Avails of,
406.

Subdual of descriptive details, 486; of
narrative details, 514.

Subject, of sentence, 313; of compo-
sition, 421; and theme, relations of,
421.

Subjective description, 502.
Subjunctive, The, 232.

Subordinating class of conjunctions, 265.
Suggestion, as accessory of amplification,
473; by effects, 500.

SUPPORT FROM SELF-CULture, The,
in invention, 396.

Supporting medium, The, in story, 530.
Surprise, The element of, in narration,
527.

SUSPENSION, 279; Workmanship of, 280.
Syllogism, The, 617; in enthymeme,

618; in enlargement, 620.

Symbolic element, The, 117; words, 117.
Symbolics, Omission of, in poetic diction,
141.

SYMBOLS OF THINGS, EXPOSITION OF
THE, 575.

Synchronism of events, 540.
Synecdoche, 88.

Synonyms, 47.

Synonymy in exposition, 576.

SYNTACTICAL ADJUSTMENTS, 223.

Taste, relation to writing, 21; as basis
of beauty, 40.

Tautology, 307.

Technicalisms, 56.

Temperament of qualities, 41.
Tense, The scheme of, 226.
Terms, Exegesis of, 576.
Testimony, 600.
Tetrameter, 180.

THEME, THE, 421; Definition of, 421;

as related to subject, 421; Signifi-
cance of, as deduced, 424 ; as related
to form of discourse, 426; as dis-
tinguished from title, 429.
THINGS, EXPOSITION OF, 557.
Thought-association, Laws of, 443.

Thought-building, Orders of, 446.

THREE IDIOMS, 232.
Time-conditioned portrayal, 504.
Title, The, as compared with theme,

429; Characteristics of, 429.
TONE OF DISCOURSE, MAINTENANCE

OF THE, 135.
Topic of paragraph, Prominence of, 359;
Place of, 361; Double, 363.
Topics, Casual, in meditation, 408;
Reading by, 415.

Total effect, Problem of, in description,
480.

Transitional paragraph, The, 381.
Transitions, 457.
Translation, 587.

Travel and observation, Sketches of, 509.
Treatise, The, 594.

Tributary portions, of sentence, The,

315.

Trisyllabic feet, 176.

Trochaic measure, 175.
Trope, 87.

TYPES, THE LITERARY (Book v), 475.

Unamplified expression, The province

of, 460.

Understatement, 105; of emotion, 656.
Undertone of phrasal rhythm, 202.
Unity of sentence, 320; Relations con-
stituting it, 323.

Untranslatable, The, 589 footnote.
Unworn words and phrases, Partiality
to, in poetic diction, 144.

Utility, as standard of prose choice, 109.

Value, Practical, of figures, 75.
Variety, Claims of, in sentence stress,

342.

Vehicle of the story, THE, 529.
Verifying spirit, The, in invention, 400.
Verse, The, in rhythm, 178; Stand-
ard types of, 179; THE LIFE of,
189.

Vigor, Condensation for, 295; of narra-
tive movement, 524.

Vision, 98.

Vocabulary of prose, 109.

Waiving, in debate, 638.

Will, Appeal to the, in oratory, 657; as
basis of force, 36; in rhetorical
adaptation, 4.
Word-painting, 151; in description, 498.
WORDS, CHOICE OF, FOR DENOTA-

TION (Chap. iii), 46; AND FIG-
URES FOR CONNOTATION (Chap.
iv), 75.

Written discourse for public delivery,

122.

Written diction, 126; Mechanical aids
to, 128.