Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... effect is unpleasant . By distribut- ing the phrases , the statement may be more neatly ex- pressed ; thus , For three months , they were imprisoned in the town of Clinch in an old stone house , etc .; or , They were , for three months ...
... effect is unpleasant . By distribut- ing the phrases , the statement may be more neatly ex- pressed ; thus , For three months , they were imprisoned in the town of Clinch in an old stone house , etc .; or , They were , for three months ...
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... effect or consequence of the other , or an inference from it , they should be joined by illative conjunctions . , The following are the principal illative conjunctions : therefore wherefore hence whence thus SO so that consequently ...
... effect or consequence of the other , or an inference from it , they should be joined by illative conjunctions . , The following are the principal illative conjunctions : therefore wherefore hence whence thus SO so that consequently ...
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... effect . To insure a pleasing effect in prose composition , it is nec- essary to avoid rhyme . To be independent in the expression of the ideas it is necessary to avoid the language of the poem . When the poem is clearly understood it ...
... effect . To insure a pleasing effect in prose composition , it is nec- essary to avoid rhyme . To be independent in the expression of the ideas it is necessary to avoid the language of the poem . When the poem is clearly understood it ...
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... effect of the farmer's kindness on his own heart . * - * NOTE . In all kinds of discourse there are but three main divisions - the in- troduction , the discussion , and the conclusion . The introduction is short , and is designed to ...
... effect of the farmer's kindness on his own heart . * - * NOTE . In all kinds of discourse there are but three main divisions - the in- troduction , the discussion , and the conclusion . The introduction is short , and is designed to ...
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... effect . Monotony is the great fault into which writers are apt to fall who are fond of harmonious arrangement ; and to have only one tune or measure is not much better than having none at all . " 3 Variety of expression may be secured ...
... effect . Monotony is the great fault into which writers are apt to fall who are fond of harmonious arrangement ; and to have only one tune or measure is not much better than having none at all . " 3 Variety of expression may be secured ...
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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