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DEF. 10.--Syncope allows one or more letters to be taken from the middle of a word.

EXAMPLES.--1. "Or serve they as a flow'ry verge to bind

2. The fluid skirts of that same wat'ry cloud,

3. Lest it again dissolve and show'r the earth."-Milton

DEF. 11.-Tmesis allows a word to be inserted between the parts of a compound word.

EXAMPLE." How MUCH soever we may desire it."

OBS.-Sometimes two figures are combined in the same word. EXAMPLE." Ah! whence is that sound which now larums his ear?"

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DEF. 12.-Ellipsis allows the omission of one or more words necessary to complete the grammatical construction, when custom has rendered them unnecessary to complete the sense.

EXAMPLES.-1. "Thou art perched aloft on the beetling crag,
And the waves are white below [ ]."

2. "Unnumbered systems [ ], suns, and worlds,
Unite to worship thee,

3. While thy majestic greatness fills

Space [], Time [], Eternity."

DEF. 13-Pleonasm allows the introduction of words not necessary to complete the grammatical construction of a Sentence.

EXAMPLES.-1. "The moon herself is lost in heaven."

2. "I sit me down, a pensive hour to spend

DEF. 14.-Syllipsis allows a word to be used n literal sense.

EXAMPLE." And there lay the steed, with his nostril all w

DEF. 15.-Enallage allows the use of one w another of similar origin.

EXAMPLE." A world devote to universal wreck."

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DEF. 17.-A Simile is a direct comparison.

EXAMPLE." The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fo

DEF. 18.-A Metaphor is an indirect comparison

EXAMPLE." There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."

DEF. 19.-An Allegory is an extended metaph which a narration, real or fictitious, is made to con analogous truth or fiction.

EXAMPLE" Eternity's vast ocean lies before thee;

There, there, Lorenzo, thy Clarissa sails;

Give thy mind sea-room; keep it wide of Earth-
That rock of souls immortal; cut thy cord;
Weigh anchor; spread thy sails; call every win
Eye thy great Pole-star; make the land of life."-

DEF. 20.-Personification represents inanimate things as being endowed with life and volition.

EXAMPLES.-1. "And old Experience learns too late

That all is vanity below."

2. "Joy has her tears, and Transport has her death."

DEF. 21.-Irony makes a sentence convey a meaning the opposite of its ordinary sense.

EXAMPLES." And we, brave men, are satisfied

If we ourselves escape his sword."

DEF. 22.--Hyberbole exaggerates the truth.

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The waves mount up, and wash the face of heaven.” DEF. 23.-Antithesis contrasts two or more things with ach other.

EXAMPLES.-1. "Zealous though modest, innocent though free."

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2. By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report,
as deceivers, and yet true."

DEF. 24.—Metonomy puts one thing for another-
The cause for the effect,

The effect for the cause,

The container for the thing contained,

An attribute or quality for the thing or person.

EXAMPLES.-1. "Shall the sword devour for ever?"

2. "Thy hand, unseen, sustains the poles."
3. "His ear is ever open to their cry."

4. "I am much delighted in reading Homer."
5. "He has returned to his cups again."

6. "I'll plunge thee headlong in the whelming tide." DEF. 25.-Synecdoche puts a part for a whole, and a whole for a part.

EXAMPLES.-1. "When the tempest stalks abroad,

Seek the shelter of my roof."

2 "Oh! ever cursed be the hand

That wrought this ruin in the land."

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DEF. 26.-Apostrophe is a sudden transition fro subject of a discourse to address a person or thin sent or absent.

EXAMPLE. "This is a tale for fathers and for mothers.

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and young women, you can not understand it."-E.

DEF. 27.-Interrogation expresses an assertion form of a question.

EXAMPLE.-1. "Looks it not like the king?"

"He that formed the eye, shall he not see?"

DEF. 28.-Exclamation expresses a sudden or in emotion.

EXAMPLE "O liberty! O sound, once delightful to every

ear !"

DEF. 29.-Vision represents past or future tin present to the view.

EXAMPLE. "I see them on their winding way,

About their ranks the moonbeams play."

DEF. 30.--Paralepsis is a figure by which a main is expressed incidentally, or with a professed effort speaker to conceal it.

EXAMPLE."Without alluding to your habits of intemperance, I ask, how can you attempt to justify your presen

tention to business and the neglect of your famil

DEF. 31.-Climax is that form of expression by w the thoughts are made to rise by successive gradation EXAMPLE" He aspired to be the highest; above the people, the authorities, above the LAWS, above his COUNT

DEF 32.-Anti-Climax is the opposite of the clima EXAMPLE." How has expectation darkened into anxiety, an into dread, and dread into despair."-Irving.

DEF. 33.-Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other.

EXAMPLES.-1. "Up the high hill he heaves a huge, round stone." 2. "He carves with classic chisel the Corinthian capital that crowns the column."

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QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW.

283. What is PROSODY?

Name the different mark of punctuation.

When is a Comma properly used?

When a Semicolon?-a Colon?-a Period?
When is a Dash properly used?an Exclamation?
When do we use a mark of Interrogation?

289.-Name the GRAMMATICAL SIGNS.

What is an Apostrophe?--a Quotation?—a Hyphen?
"What is a Bracket?—a Parenthesis?-Reference marks?
What is a Brace?—Marks of Inflection ?—Measures?
What is a Caret ?-a Dieresis ?-an Index ?—a Section?

What is a Paragraph?-How are Paragraphs commonly indi
cated?

What is Accent?-What is Emphasis?

292.-What is COMPOSITION?-What are the varieties?

What is Prose?-Name the various kinds of Prose.

What is Verse?—When properly used!

Name and define the various kinds of Poetry.

295.-What is VERSIFICATION?

What are the distinctions of verse?

What is Blank Verse?-What is Rhyming Verse?
What is a Verse ?-a Hemistich ?--a Couplet?

What is a Triplet ?-What is a Stanza?

What is a Foot?-A Foot may have how many Syllables? What are the Feet of two Syllables?-of three Syllables? What is a Trochee ?- -an Tambus?— -a Pyrrhic?-a Spondee? What is a Dactyl ?—an Anapest ?—an Amphibrach ?—a Tribrack? What measures are commonly used in English Poetry? 299-What is a FIGURE OF SPEECH-Why are they used? What is a Grammatical Figure?—a Rhetorical Figure? Name the Figures which modify the forms of Words.

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