Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... beginning to the end of the proposition . Thus : " After we reached Rouen , they soon conducted me to 116 Riviere Place , where I was received by my friend , who greatly rejoiced to see me . " Here , from the frequent changing of ...
... beginning to the end of the proposition . Thus : " After we reached Rouen , they soon conducted me to 116 Riviere Place , where I was received by my friend , who greatly rejoiced to see me . " Here , from the frequent changing of ...
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... beginning of the sentence is to re- move them farthest from their natural place , and to give them the greatest possible emphasis that position can be- stow . The subject , if unusually emphatic , should often be removed from the beginning ...
... beginning of the sentence is to re- move them farthest from their natural place , and to give them the greatest possible emphasis that position can be- stow . The subject , if unusually emphatic , should often be removed from the beginning ...
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... beginning , all that lies between looks back to the beginning and for- wards to the end . It is unfitted for some kinds of compo- sition , and its frequent recurrence is always disagreeable . A loose sentence is not necessarily ...
... beginning , all that lies between looks back to the beginning and for- wards to the end . It is unfitted for some kinds of compo- sition , and its frequent recurrence is always disagreeable . A loose sentence is not necessarily ...
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... beginning , and words with a suc- cession of unaccented syllables , are difficult to pronounce , and , accordingly , unpleasant to the ear ; as , hospitably , derogatorily , peremptorily , ar'bitrarily . RULE III . - Avoid all ...
... beginning , and words with a suc- cession of unaccented syllables , are difficult to pronounce , and , accordingly , unpleasant to the ear ; as , hospitably , derogatorily , peremptorily , ar'bitrarily . RULE III . - Avoid all ...
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... beginning or a sudden cessation of sound . A single sound of strength , though but of short duration , if repeated after intervals , fills the mind with ideas of grand- eur : the striking of a great clock in the deep silence of the ...
... beginning or a sudden cessation of sound . A single sound of strength , though but of short duration , if repeated after intervals , fills the mind with ideas of grand- eur : the striking of a great clock in the deep silence of the ...
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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