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  • A Text-Book on Rhetoric: Supplementing the Development of the Science with Exhaustive Practice in Composition. A course of Practical Lessons Adapted for use in High Schools and Academies and in the Lower Classes of College

    Document thumbnail: A Text-Book on Rhetoric: Supplementing the Development of the Science with Exhaustive Practice in Composition. A course of Practical Lessons Adapted for use in High Schools and Academies and in the Lower Classes of College
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    Description/Abstract:
    This "New and Improved Edition" was published in 1894 and copyrighted in 1892. The author is credited as Professor of Language and Literature in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and as the author of several other books. The text claims it is responding to teachers' need for work for pupils to do in illustration of what they have learned. The first section on invention covers sentence structure, forming paragraphs, analysis of subjects, and preparation of frameworks. The second section on qualities of style discusses perspicuity, imagery, energy, wit, pathos, and elegance. The third section on productions breaks up prose into oral (conversation, debates, sermons, etc.) and written (biographies, histories, fiction, letters, etc.). It also discusses poetry by focusing on mission, style, form, and kinds (satiric, epic, dramatic, etc.). Exercises include specific directions for altering or analyzing examples. Excerpts from the work of well known authors are used throughout. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Kellogg, Brainerd
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    06/10/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/20/2019
    Date Created:
    1894
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0