Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... accented syllables , or such as occasion a clash of vowels . Opposed to all such are ( 1 ) words ending in soft consonants or open vowels ; as , ever , alive , dream ; ( 2 ) words containing liquids ; as , roaming , mellow , noontide ...
... accented syllables , or such as occasion a clash of vowels . Opposed to all such are ( 1 ) words ending in soft consonants or open vowels ; as , ever , alive , dream ; ( 2 ) words containing liquids ; as , roaming , mellow , noontide ...
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... accented on the first and third ; as , contempla'tion , providen'tial . An agreeable cadence is made by words of three syllables , accented on the second ; as , dejection , abstraction . Monosyllables or a series of un- accented ...
... accented on the first and third ; as , contempla'tion , providen'tial . An agreeable cadence is made by words of three syllables , accented on the second ; as , dejection , abstraction . Monosyllables or a series of un- accented ...
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... accented and unaccented syllables ; as , By faith , and faith | alone , | embrace , Believing where | we can not ... accented . As we use the term , it more strictly refers to the number of feet in the respective lines , and varies ...
... accented and unaccented syllables ; as , By faith , and faith | alone , | embrace , Believing where | we can not ... accented . As we use the term , it more strictly refers to the number of feet in the respective lines , and varies ...
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... accented ; a curved line ( ~ ) shows that it is unaccented . In verse , monosyllables may receive accent , although they are with- out it in prose ; as , And in no quiet canst thou be . Two syllables may sometimes be contracted into one ...
... accented ; a curved line ( ~ ) shows that it is unaccented . In verse , monosyllables may receive accent , although they are with- out it in prose ; as , And in no quiet canst thou be . Two syllables may sometimes be contracted into one ...
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... accented alike . Thus wing and ring , breeze and trees , night and white are perfect rhymes ; but room and home , war and car , breathe and tease , are not perfect . The number of words in the English language which form perfect rhymes ...
... accented alike . Thus wing and ring , breeze and trees , night and white are perfect rhymes ; but room and home , war and car , breathe and tease , are not perfect . The number of words in the English language which form perfect rhymes ...
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accented adjective clause adverb adverbial clause Anapestic beautiful birds called complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction conjunctive adverb connected dependent clause DIRECTION discourse earth English examples EXERCISE expression eyes feeling feet figure flowers following sentences give hand hath heard heart heaven hence honor hope iambic pentameter idea Inchcape Inchcape Rock kind King language light live look Lord meaning metaphor Metonymy mind modifies nature never night noun o'er object paragraph participle person phrases poetry predicate principal pronoun proposition prose punctuation Rhetoric rhyme Richard Penderell RULE sail Saxon sense simile simple sentence snow sometimes soul sound speak speech statement stood style sublime subordinate conjunction sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee things thou thought tion trees Trimeter trochaic truth verb verse voice wind words writer