Part 3 — INDEX
Reading edition
Æsthetics defined, 34;
æsthetic elements, 35.
Allegory, 71.
Alliteration, 114.
Analogy, argument from, 172.
Anglo-Saxon and Latin elements of English, 56.
Annals, 158.
Antithesis, 75.
Apostrophe, 73.
Argumentation, 87;
four kinds of, 172.
Artistic element in literature, 8.
Author and his work, 19;
personality of, 19;
mental qualities of, 19;
character of, 20;
view of life of, 22;
literary school of, 24;
mood and purpose of, 24;
life of, 27.
Autobiographic elements in literature, 21.
Autobiography, 162.
Ballad defined, 134.
Beauty, 35.
Biography, 160;
three types of, 161;
essentials of, 161.
Blank verse, 117.
Cæsura, 118.
Character and authorship, 21.
Chronicle, 158.
Classic writers, 4.
Climax, 75.
Comedy, 148.
Criticism, defined, 2;
history of, 3;
standard of, 3;
requisites of, 4;
as an art, 5;
diversity of, 5;
diversity of, explained, 6;
utility of, 7;
materials of, 8.
Description, 35, 42, 85.
Diary, 162.
Diction, 58.
Discourse, kinds of, 84.
Drama, 148-153;
unity of, 149;
five principal parts, 150;
other elements, 150.
Dramatis personae, 151.
Elegy, 137.
Eloquence, source of, 169.
English language, composite, 55;
copious, 56;
elements of, 56;
what elements to choose, 57.
Enjambement, 118.
Epic poetry, 146;
different species of, 147;
mock epic, 147.
Epigram, 76.
Essay, 167;
principal forms of, 167;
criteria of, 168.
Exclamation, 73.
Exposition, 87.
Fable, 72.
Faculties, symmetrical, 92.
Farce, 149.
Felicity of expression, 38.
Fiction, defined, 178;
elements of, 181;
characters of, 182;
incidents of, 182;
environment in, 183;
plot in, 183;
aim of, 184;
view of life of, 184;
kinds of, 184;
society novel, 185;
local novel, 185;
historical novel, 186;
problem or purpose novel, 187;
love story, 188;
marine novel, 189;
psychologic novel, 189;
short story, 190.
Figures, defined, 68;
kinds of, 68;
of resemblance, 69;
of contrast, 75.
Harmony of thought and expression, 37.
Heroism, 41.
History, defined, 156;
divisions of, 157;
methods of, 158;
criteria of, 163.
Humor, 46.
Hymns, 135.
Hyperbole, 74.
Idealism, 180.
Imagination, 89;
ill-governed, 90.
Interrogation, 76.
Irony, 77.
Life, an author's view of, 22.
Literary school, 24.
Love in literature, 40;
love story, 188.
Ludicrous, the, in literature, 44.
Matter and form in literature, 9.
Metaphor, 70.
Meter, 111, 116.
Metonymy, 72.
Mind, generic differences of, 88.
Mock epic, 147.
Molding influences in literature, 8.
Moral character, 20;
moral sublime, 43.
Narration, 86.
Necessity of understanding a work, 1.
Novel and romance, 178.
See Fiction.
Ode defined, 136.
Opera, 149.
Oration, divisions of, 170;
criteria of, 174.
Oratory, 169;
different kinds of, 170.
Parable, 72.
Paragraph, 62.
Parody, 45.
Period in verse, 118.
Personification, 70.
Poet, the, 105;
as seer, 106.
Poetic license, 120-122.
Poetry, defined, 103;
and prose, 104;
sources of, 104;
classification of, 130;
didactic, 130;
descriptive, 132;
pastoral, 133;
lyric, 134;
criteria of, 138;
epic, 145.
Prose and poetry, 104;
defined, 156.
Purpose of literary study, 1.
Realism, 179.
Rhyme, 112;
different kinds of, 112-114.
Romance, metrical, 147;
defined, 178.
See Fiction.
Romanticism, 179.
Satire, 45, 131.
Sensibilities in ascendant, 90.
Sentences, different kinds of, 60;
qualities of, 61.
Simile, 69.
Song defined, 135.
Sonnet, 137.
Spiritual truth, 39.
Stanza, defined, 115;
different kinds of, 115-117.
Style, 61;
defined, 84;
importance of, 94;
poetic, 120.
Synecdoche, 72.
Tale, metrical, 147;
of adventure, 188.
Taste, literary, 34.
Tenderness and pathos, 43.
Tragedy, 148.
Tragi-comedy, 148.
Versification, defined, 107;
quantity in, 107;
accent in, 107;
poetic feet in, 108-110;
time element in, 111;
meter in, 111.
Vision, 74.
Will, force of, in literature, 91.