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 . Thus : • • He must return soon ...
... 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 . Thus : • • He must return soon ...
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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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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