Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... effect is unpleasant . By distribut- ing the phrases , the statement may be more neatly ex- pressed ; thus , For three months , they were imprisoned in the town of Clinch in an old stone house , etc .; or , They were , for three months ...
... effect is unpleasant . By distribut- ing the phrases , the statement may be more neatly ex- pressed ; thus , For three months , they were imprisoned in the town of Clinch in an old stone house , etc .; or , They were , for three months ...
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... effect or consequence of the other , or an inference from it , they should be joined by illative conjunctions . The following are the principal illative conjunctions : therefore wherefore hence whence thus so then SO so that then ...
... effect or consequence of the other , or an inference from it , they should be joined by illative conjunctions . The following are the principal illative conjunctions : therefore wherefore hence whence thus so then SO so that then ...
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... effect . To insure a pleasing effect in prose composition , it is nec- essary to avoid rhyme . To be independent in the expression of the ideas it is necessary to avoid the language of the poem . When the poem is clearly understood it ...
... effect . To insure a pleasing effect in prose composition , it is nec- essary to avoid rhyme . To be independent in the expression of the ideas it is necessary to avoid the language of the poem . When the poem is clearly understood it ...
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... effect of the farmer's kindness on his own heart . * * NOTE . In all kinds of discourse there are but three main divisions — the in- troduction , the discussion , and the conclusion . The introduction is short , and is designed to pave ...
... effect of the farmer's kindness on his own heart . * * NOTE . In all kinds of discourse there are but three main divisions — the in- troduction , the discussion , and the conclusion . The introduction is short , and is designed to pave ...
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... effect . Monotony is the great fault into which writers are apt to fall who are fond of harmonious arrangement ; and to have only one tune or measure is not much better than having none at all . ” Variety of expression may be secured in ...
... effect . Monotony is the great fault into which writers are apt to fall who are fond of harmonious arrangement ; and to have only one tune or measure is not much better than having none at all . ” Variety of expression may be secured in ...
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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