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 Simile Metaphor Personification • Allegory . Metonymy Synecdoche Apostrophe Vision Antithesis Epigram . Irony Hyperbole Litotes Exercise in Figures Exercises in Composition X. THE PARAGRAPH Construction of the ...
... FIGURES OF SPEECH Simile Metaphor Personification • Allegory . Metonymy Synecdoche Apostrophe Vision Antithesis Epigram . Irony Hyperbole Litotes Exercise in Figures Exercises in Composition X. THE PARAGRAPH Construction of the ...
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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. II - The object RULE II . — The object of an action or of a preposition should have the objective form . Violations of this rule are ...
... figure , who Gabriel felt at once was no being of this world , ” not , “ whom Gabriel felt , " etc. II - The object RULE II . — The object of an action or of a preposition should have the objective form . Violations of this rule are ...
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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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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