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.

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