Chapters (13)
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF STYLE.
- PART I. CAUSES OF FORCE IN LANGUAGE WHICH DEPEND UPON ECONOMY OF THE MENTAL ENERGIES.
- i. The Principle of Economy.
- ii. Economy in the Use of Words.
- iii. The Principle of Economy applied to Sentences.
- iv. The Principle of Economy applied to Figures.
- v. Suggestion as a Means of Economy.
- vi. The Effect of Poetry explained.
- PART II. CAUSES OF FORCE IN LANGUAGE WHICH DEPEND UPON ECONOMY OF THE MENTAL SENSIBILITIES.
- i. The Law of Mental Exhaustion and Repair.
- ii Explanation of Climax, Antithesis, and Anticlimax.
- iii. Need of Variety.
- iv. The Ideal Writer.
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