Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... verse . Against luxurious bishops and tyrannic sher- iffs Robin Hood's bow was ever bent and his arrow in the string . The will was kept secret during the short remainder of his life . On the third of November , 1700 , he expired . And ...
... verse . Against luxurious bishops and tyrannic sher- iffs Robin Hood's bow was ever bent and his arrow in the string . The will was kept secret during the short remainder of his life . On the third of November , 1700 , he expired . And ...
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... verse . It means the ordinary , straightfor- ward manner of discourse , in distinction from the inverted order so common in poetry . Although no exact classification has been made of the varieties of prose composition , the principal ...
... verse . It means the ordinary , straightfor- ward manner of discourse , in distinction from the inverted order so common in poetry . Although no exact classification has been made of the varieties of prose composition , the principal ...
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... verse . Verse is that species of composition in which the words are arranged in lines containing a definite number and suc- cession of accented and unaccented syllables ; as , By faith , | and faith | alone , | embrace , Believing where ...
... verse . Verse is that species of composition in which the words are arranged in lines containing a definite number and suc- cession of accented and unaccented syllables ; as , By faith , | and faith | alone , | embrace , Believing where ...
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... verse derives its charac- ter . In this respect , English meter differs from the clas- sical meters , which are constructed principally according to the length , or quantity , of the vowels . Thus , in English verse we speak of ...
... verse derives its charac- ter . In this respect , English meter differs from the clas- sical meters , which are constructed principally according to the length , or quantity , of the vowels . Thus , in English verse we speak of ...
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... verse or line into feet is called scanning . A straight line ( - ) over a syllable shows that it is accented ; a curved line ( ✓ ) shows that it is unaccented . In verse , monosyllables may receive accent , although they are with- out ...
... verse or line into feet is called scanning . A straight line ( - ) over a syllable shows that it is accented ; a curved line ( ✓ ) shows that it is unaccented . In verse , monosyllables may receive accent , although they are with- out ...
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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