Both Uses
composition
in
The Graveyard Book
(Edited)
- And so it went, until it was time for Grammar and Composition with Miss Letitia Borrows, Spinster of this Parish (Who Did No Harm to No Man all the Dais of Her Life. Reader, Can You Say Likewise?).
p. 106.5 *composition = writing
- He took advantage of Miss Borrows's willingness to be diverted from the subjects of Grammar and Composition to the subject of anything else at all to ask her about money—how exactly it worked, how one used it to get things one wanted.
p. 114.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(composition as in: the composition of the audience) the parts that make up something, something made up of parts, or the way it is put together
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(2)
(composition as in: an original composition) a creative work, the way the creative work is put together, or the act of creating itContext will sometimes make clear that the creative work is the writing of music or an essay, but it can anything -- such as the way the components of a picture are arranged.
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)