Rhetoric and the Study of Literature (Classic Reprint)

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This volume, designed for use in the last two years of the secondary school course, contains such textbook matter as I think is needed to carry out these three ideas in an economical way: a brief review of rhetoric, including a little vocabulary of terms commonly employed in talking about books; a general classification and discussion of the various literary forms - fiction, drama, essay, etc. - to gether with suggestions both general and specific concern ing how these forms may be studied; a summary by periods of English literature, containing what I think is the minimum that the pupil should know upon graduation such information as an intelligent man or woman surely ought to possess. I have not hesitated to include, in revised form, some matter that has already appeared in an earlier manual; but the exercises and questions, which form a considerable part of the whole, are new - new and yet old, for little has gone into this book that has not been tried out repeatedly in class room. Indeed I have neither the courage nor the inclination to put forth in textbook form anything experimental.

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