目录 致教师 致学习者 Part One Manuscript Form I . Arrangement n . Word Division m. Capitalization IV . Punctuation V. Handwriting Exercises Part Two Diction I . Levels of Words II . The Meaning of Words III. General and Specific Words IV. Idioms V . Figures of Speech 1. Simile 2. Metaphor 3. Personification 4. Metonymy 5. Synecdoche 6. Euphemism 7. Irony 8. Overstatement and Understatement 9. Transferred Epithet 10. Oxymoron 11 . Alliteration VI Dictionaries 1. Using Dictionaries 2. Some Good Dictionaries Exercises Part Three The Sentence I . Complete Sentences and Sentence Fragments II . Types of Sentences 1. Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, and Exclamatory Sentences 2. Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences 3. Loose, Periodic and Balanced Sentences 4. Short and Long Sentences 5 . Effective Sentences 1. Unity 2. Coherence 3. Conciseness 4. Emphasis 5. Variety Exercises Part Four The Paragraph I . Effective Paragraphs 1. Unity