259
Metaphor 260
Epithet 260
Personification 260
Apostrophe 261
Allegory 261
Simile 261
Figures based upon Sentence Structure 262
Inversion 262
Exclamation 262
Interrogation 262
Climax 262
Irony 262
Metonymy 263
Synecdoche 263
Allusion 263
Hyperbole 263
Exercises in Figures 264

Chapter XI.--Verse Forms

Singing Verse 269
Poetic Feet 272
Kinds of Metre 273
Stanzas 275
Scansion 276
Variations in Metres 276
First and Last Foot 281
Kinds of Poetry 284
Exercises in Metres 286

APPENDIX

A. Suggestions to Teachers 293
B. The Form of a Composition 296
C. Marks for Correction of Compositions 300
D. Punctuation 301
E. Supplementary List of Literature 309

A COURSE OF STUDY

IN LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION

The Course of Study which follows is presented, not because it is
better than many others which might be made. For the purposes of this
book it was necessary that some course be adopted as the basis of the
text. The principles which guided in arranging this course I believe
are sound; but the preferences of teachers and the peculiarities of
environment will often make it wise to use other selections from
literature. Of this a large "supplementary list" is given at the back
of the book.

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