Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... true appreciation of what is best in our literature requires years of careful criticism , the student's attention should be given to such criticism as soon as his mind has attained sufficient maturity for the consideration of the ...
... true appreciation of what is best in our literature requires years of careful criticism , the student's attention should be given to such criticism as soon as his mind has attained sufficient maturity for the consideration of the ...
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... true of all phrases used as adjective elements , but phrases used adverbially may be placed in almost any part of the sentence . The taste of the writer must determine which is the best place . Should the sentence contain a number of ...
... true of all phrases used as adjective elements , but phrases used adverbially may be placed in almost any part of the sentence . The taste of the writer must determine which is the best place . Should the sentence contain a number of ...
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... True , he served the state in his youth ; but then he betrayed it in his old age . ( Alternative ) Either Rome must destroy Carthage , or Carthage will be a perpetual threat to Rome . ( Illative ) They went away from town abruptly , so ...
... True , he served the state in his youth ; but then he betrayed it in his old age . ( Alternative ) Either Rome must destroy Carthage , or Carthage will be a perpetual threat to Rome . ( Illative ) They went away from town abruptly , so ...
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... true for you in your private heart is true for all men , -that is genius . 11. To tell all that we think is inexpedient . 12. Confessing the truth , I was greatly to blame for my indiscretion . 13. To pull down the false and to build up ...
... true for you in your private heart is true for all men , -that is genius . 11. To tell all that we think is inexpedient . 12. Confessing the truth , I was greatly to blame for my indiscretion . 13. To pull down the false and to build up ...
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... true . 20. The opposition could reward those who bestowed upon it exces- sive and studied praise with little more than promises . 21. Benevolent men at length became weary of giving relief which was dissipated with the wildest profusion ...
... true . 20. The opposition could reward those who bestowed upon it exces- sive and studied praise with little more than promises . 21. Benevolent men at length became weary of giving relief which was dissipated with the wildest profusion ...
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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