Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... called expansion . The following examples illustrate the method : Simple . The wise man is the man of years . Complex . The man that is wise is the man of years . Simple . The enemy , beaten at all points , surrendered . Complex . The ...
... called expansion . The following examples illustrate the method : Simple . The wise man is the man of years . Complex . The man that is wise is the man of years . Simple . The enemy , beaten at all points , surrendered . Complex . The ...
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... all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts , is lawful prize , Nor all that glistens , gold . THOMAS GRAY . DEVELOPMENT I. The exercise called Development is designed to give 74 COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC .
... all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts , is lawful prize , Nor all that glistens , gold . THOMAS GRAY . DEVELOPMENT I. The exercise called Development is designed to give 74 COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC .
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... called Development is designed to give prac- tice in original composition . In the following selection much that the imagination can supply has been omitted . For example , we might tell who the little girl is ; we might tell something ...
... called Development is designed to give prac- tice in original composition . In the following selection much that the imagination can supply has been omitted . For example , we might tell who the little girl is ; we might tell something ...
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... called Concord enters very largely into all inflected languages - languages in which the forms of the words show their mutual relations . In all such languages , concord means the adjustment of words to one another chiefly by ...
... called Concord enters very largely into all inflected languages - languages in which the forms of the words show their mutual relations . In all such languages , concord means the adjustment of words to one another chiefly by ...
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... called John . Who do you think it is ? Let him be who he may . I do not know who they were . Correct the errors in the following : I think that it is him . This sly creature , my brother says , is me . Whom do men say that I am ? If ...
... called John . Who do you think it is ? Let him be who he may . I do not know who they were . Correct the errors in the following : I think that it is him . This sly creature , my brother says , is me . Whom do men say that I am ? If ...
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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