Chapter X: Figures of Speech

Figurative Language 257
Figures based upon Likeness 259
Metaphor 260
Epithet 260
Personification 260
Apostrophe 261
Allegory 261
Simile 261
Figures based upon Sentence Structure 262
Inversion 262
Exclamation 262
Interrogation 262
Climax 262
Irony 262
Metonymy 263
Synecdoche 263
Allusion 263
Hyperbole 263
Exercises in Figures 264

Chapter XI.--Verse Forms

Singing Verse 269
Poetic Feet 272
Kinds of Metre 273
Stanzas 275
Scansion 276
Variations in Metres 276
First and Last Foot 281
Kinds of Poetry 284
Exercises in Metres 286