Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... whole force of conversation depends on how much you can take for granted . 2. That fortune favors the brave is a cheering maxim . 3. I heard that a battle had been fought . 4. How far I have succeeded is for you to judge . 5. I will ...
... whole force of conversation depends on how much you can take for granted . 2. That fortune favors the brave is a cheering maxim . 3. I heard that a battle had been fought . 4. How far I have succeeded is for you to judge . 5. I will ...
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... whole character . 3. In days long ago , when birds and flowers and trees could talk , in a country far over the sea , there was a beautiful fountain . 4. If I were a prince , I would hire or buy a private literary teapot , in which I ...
... whole character . 3. In days long ago , when birds and flowers and trees could talk , in a country far over the sea , there was a beautiful fountain . 4. If I were a prince , I would hire or buy a private literary teapot , in which I ...
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... whole colony . The gunpowder seized by the natives belonged to the English colony . 8. Again and again , the frigate appeared to be rushing on shoals . It appeared to be rushing blindly . The sea was covered with foam . Destruction ...
... whole colony . The gunpowder seized by the natives belonged to the English colony . 8. Again and again , the frigate appeared to be rushing on shoals . It appeared to be rushing blindly . The sea was covered with foam . Destruction ...
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... whole city on fire is a spectacle full of horror DIRECTION . - Add to each of the following statements another statement , so as to make an alternative compound sentence . He must return soon . go wrong . I. I have no tears , else . 2 ...
... whole city on fire is a spectacle full of horror DIRECTION . - Add to each of the following statements another statement , so as to make an alternative compound sentence . He must return soon . go wrong . I. I have no tears , else . 2 ...
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... whole nation heard with astonishment that the Emperor had abdicated . 9. A loft raised some seven or eight feet , which was reached by a ladder , was the resting - place that awaited us . 10. As soon as day appeared , all the family ...
... whole nation heard with astonishment that the Emperor had abdicated . 9. A loft raised some seven or eight feet , which was reached by a ladder , was the resting - place that awaited us . 10. As soon as day appeared , all the family ...
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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