Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... ideas . For a like reason , also , the sub- ject of Concord , which perhaps belongs still more strictly to Grammar , is included ; not all of the syntactical arrangements are noticed , only those wherein the grammatical principle re ...
... ideas . For a like reason , also , the sub- ject of Concord , which perhaps belongs still more strictly to Grammar , is included ; not all of the syntactical arrangements are noticed , only those wherein the grammatical principle re ...
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... ideas , or thoughts , and arranging them in order . As an art , it is regulated by the principles of Rhetoric . Rhetoric , derived from a Greek verb meaning to speak , is the science that discusses the means whereby thoughts may be ...
... ideas , or thoughts , and arranging them in order . As an art , it is regulated by the principles of Rhetoric . Rhetoric , derived from a Greek verb meaning to speak , is the science that discusses the means whereby thoughts may be ...
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... ideas by means of in- dependent propositions . Such a sentence is compound . In its simplest form , the simple sentence consists of sub- ject and predicate , without adjuncts . The first of the fol- lowing sentences is in its simplest ...
... ideas by means of in- dependent propositions . Such a sentence is compound . In its simplest form , the simple sentence consists of sub- ject and predicate , without adjuncts . The first of the fol- lowing sentences is in its simplest ...
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... idea . 6. We could never understand why he left so suddenly . 7. Mark , now , how a plain tale shall put you down . 8. Tell me not in mournful numbers , Life is but an empty dream . 9. Charles Lamb , reading the epitaphs in the church ...
... idea . 6. We could never understand why he left so suddenly . 7. Mark , now , how a plain tale shall put you down . 8. Tell me not in mournful numbers , Life is but an empty dream . 9. Charles Lamb , reading the epitaphs in the church ...
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... Ideas quickly fade ; they often vanish quite out of the understand- Some sentences complex in form are equivalent to com- pound sentences . When the relation of the members is cop- ulative , the conjunction may be absorbed in a relative ...
... Ideas quickly fade ; they often vanish quite out of the understand- Some sentences complex in form are equivalent to com- pound sentences . When the relation of the members is cop- ulative , the conjunction may be absorbed in a relative ...
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acatalectic accented adverb adverbial clause Anapestic beautiful called capital comma complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction connected Dactylic Dimeter DIRECTION discourse earth English exclamation EXERCISE expression eyes feet flowers following examples following sentences foot Four lines give reasons hath heart heaven Heptameter hope iambic pentameter iambic trimeter Inchcape Rock interrogation kind king language letter light live look Lord marks meaning meter Metonymy mind Monometer nature never night noun o'er object paragraph PARAPHRASE parenthesis persons phrases poem poetry praise pronoun proposition prose punctuation quatrains quotation rhetorical rhyming alternately RULE sense simple sentences snow sometimes song soul sound speech spondee stanza statement stood style sublime sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee Themistocles things thou thought tion Trimeter trochaic trochee truth unaccented Uncle John verb verse voice wind words writing