Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... FIGURES OF SPEECH · · 152 • 154 174 180 • 180 • · 190 · 195 · 214 218 Simile 220 • Metaphor Personification · 224 228 Allegory . Metonymy Synecdoche Apostrophe Vision Antithesis Epigram . Irony Hyperbole Litotes · 230 · 232 234 • 235 ...
... FIGURES OF SPEECH · · 152 • 154 174 180 • 180 • · 190 · 195 · 214 218 Simile 220 • Metaphor Personification · 224 228 Allegory . Metonymy Synecdoche Apostrophe Vision Antithesis Epigram . Irony Hyperbole Litotes · 230 · 232 234 • 235 ...
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... figure . The figure was shown by the fire's glow . It was a wood fire . The glow was a dull red . The fig- ure was seated . It had its back to him . The figure sat on the hearth . It bent over the light . The light was fitful . 13. To ...
... figure . The figure was shown by the fire's glow . It was a wood fire . The glow was a dull red . The fig- ure was seated . It had its back to him . The figure sat on the hearth . It bent over the light . The light was fitful . 13. To ...
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... figures might have been shad- ows- [ adverbial clause of comparison ] . The fire - lit apartment might have been a picture― [ adverbial clause of comparison ] . This scene was hushed . I could hear the cinder fall from the grate ...
... figures might have been shad- ows- [ adverbial clause of comparison ] . The fire - lit apartment might have been a picture― [ adverbial clause of comparison ] . This scene was hushed . I could hear the cinder fall from the grate ...
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... figure , who Gabriel felt at once was no being of this world , " not , " whom Gabriel felt , " etc. RULE II . — The object of an action or of a preposition should have the objective form . Violations of this rule are frequent in the use ...
... figure , who Gabriel felt at once was no being of this world , " not , " whom Gabriel felt , " etc. RULE II . — The object of an action or of a preposition should have the objective form . Violations of this rule are frequent in the use ...
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... figures wave like a faded tapestry , before my dreamy eyes . 40. Life's goblet is filled to the brim ; and though my eyes are dim with tears , I see its sparkling bubbles swim , and chant with slow and solemn voice a melancholy hymn ...
... figures wave like a faded tapestry , before my dreamy eyes . 40. Life's goblet is filled to the brim ; and though my eyes are dim with tears , I see its sparkling bubbles swim , and chant with slow and solemn voice a melancholy hymn ...
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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