Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... many bad traits in the character of Queen Eliz- abeth . ' " " The adjective phrase is one introduced by a word used regularly as an adjective . Thus : " He was a man generous in all things " ; " His garden , 12 COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC .
... many bad traits in the character of Queen Eliz- abeth . ' " " The adjective phrase is one introduced by a word used regularly as an adjective . Thus : " He was a man generous in all things " ; " His garden , 12 COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC .
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... 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 would ...
... 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 would ...
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... character . EXERCISE XVII . the parti- DIRECTION . - In the following sentences , change , where you can , ciples to infinitive phrases , and the infinitive phrases to participles . Thus : Earn- ing is having , to earn is to have . 1 ...
... character . EXERCISE XVII . the parti- DIRECTION . - In the following sentences , change , where you can , ciples to infinitive phrases , and the infinitive phrases to participles . Thus : Earn- ing is having , to earn is to have . 1 ...
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... character . " An adverb or a noun claus may be contracted into a prepositional phrase with a participle or a noun for the prin- itions cipal word . Thus : " When that the poor have cried , Cæsar hath wept , " changed to , " At the cry ...
... character . " An adverb or a noun claus may be contracted into a prepositional phrase with a participle or a noun for the prin- itions cipal word . Thus : " When that the poor have cried , Cæsar hath wept , " changed to , " At the cry ...
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... character of true manhood ? Declarative - This is not the character of true manhood . ( 3 ) By substituting an exclamatory for a declarative sen- tence . Thus : Declarative - It is a beautiful sunset . Exclamatory - What a beautiful ...
... character of true manhood ? Declarative - This is not the character of true manhood . ( 3 ) By substituting an exclamatory for a declarative sen- tence . Thus : Declarative - It is a beautiful sunset . Exclamatory - What a beautiful ...
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acatalectic accented adjective clause adverb adverbial clause Anapestic beautiful birds called comma complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction conjunctive adverb connected Dactylic dependent clause Dimeter DIRECTION discourse earth English examples EXERCISE expression eyes feeling feet flowers following sentences give hath heard heart heaven hence honor hope iambic iambic pentameter Inchcape Inchcape Rock interrogation kind king language letter light live look Lord meaning meter Metonymy mind modifies Monometer nature never night noun o'er object paragraph participle person phrases poem poetry predicate principal pronoun proposition prose punctuation Rhetoric rhyme RULE sail Saxon sense simple sentences snow sometimes soul sound speak stanza statement style sublime subordinate conjunction sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee things thou thought tion trees trochaic truth verb verse voice wind words writer