synopsis
Definition: A syllabus or summary
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Tremendous Trifles - By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
...could not even write the synopsis of an essay; as " The Bed-Post; Its Significance--Security Essential to Idea of Sleep--Night Felt as Infinite--Need of Monumental Architecture, " and so on ....
Alice Adams - By Booth Tarkington
...However, he may have lost nothing cheerful by remaining in the dark upon the matter; for if he had been a little sharper in this introspection he might have concluded that the squalor of the night-light, in its seeming effort to show against the forerunning of the sun itself, had stimulated some half-buried perception within him to sketch the painful little synopsis of an autobiography ....
A Manual of the Art of Fiction - By Clayton Meeker Hamilton
...Most of his novelle read like summaries of novels,--setting forth an abstract synopsis of the action rather than a concrete representation of it ....
The Troll Garden - By Willa Cather, McClure, Phillips & Co, McClure Press
...Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a paragraph at tlie blackboard, his English teacher had stepped to his side and attempted to guide his hand ....
Materials and Methods of Fiction - By Clayton Meeker Hamilton
...Most of his novelle read like summaries of novels,--setting forth an abstract synopsis of the action rather than a concrete representation of it ....
The Wanderings of a Spiritualist - By Arthur Conan Doyle
...I spoke in reply for about forty minutes, and gave a synopsis of the state of the faith in other centres, for each Australian State is curiously self-centred and realizes very little beyond its own borders ....
The Heavenly Twins - By Sarah Grand
...Her first notice of it is a childish little synopsis, very quaint in its unconscious irony; but interesting, principally from the fact that she was struck even then by the point upon which she afterward became so strong . "...