English: Composition and Literature

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William Franklin Webster. English: Composition and Literature

PREFACE

A COURSE OF STUDY

IN LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION

NARRATION

DESCRIPTION

EXPOSITION, PARAGRAPHS, VERSE FORMS

SENTENCES, WORDS, ARGUMENT

COMPOSITION

LITERATURE

ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATURE

CHAPTER I. FORMS OF DISCOURSE

CHAPTER II. CHOICE OF SUBJECT

CHAPTER III. NARRATION

CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTION

CHAPTER V. EXPOSITION

CHAPTER VI. ARGUMENT

CHAPTER VII. PARAGRAPHS

CHAPTER VIII. SENTENCES

CHAPTER IX. WORDS

CHAPTER X. FIGURES OF SPEECH

CHAPTER XI. VERSE FORMS58

APPENDIX

A. SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS

B. THE FORM OF A COMPOSITION

C. MARKS FOR CORRECTION OF COMPOSITIONS

D. PUNCTUATION

E. SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF LITERATURE.59

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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.

It is now a generally accepted truth that the study of English should continue through the four years of a high-school course. The division of time that seems best is to take Narration and Description in the first year. In connection with Description, Figures of Speech should be studied. The next year, Exposition and Paragraphs form the major part of the work. This may be pleasantly broken by a study of Poetry, following the outline in the chapter on Verse Forms. In the third year, while the work in literature is mainly the Novel and the Drama, Sentences and Words should be studied in composition, with a review of the chapters on Narration and Description. Towards the close of the year, Exposition should be reviewed and the study of Argument taken up. The fourth year should be devoted to the study of such College Requirements as have not been taken in the course, and to the study of the History of English Literature as given in some good text book.

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What do you note as the difference between

(a) second line of p. 19, sixth line of p. 27, sixteenth line of p. 29, and (b) fourth line of p. 25, the figure in the complete paragraph on p. 40?

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