Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... falling at equal intervals , should never follow one another . Short sentences should be intermixed with long and ... fall who are fond of harmonious arrangement ; and to have only one tune or measure is not much better than having ...
... falling at equal intervals , should never follow one another . Short sentences should be intermixed with long and ... fall who are fond of harmonious arrangement ; and to have only one tune or measure is not much better than having ...
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... fall . 6. This bleak old house will look lonely next year . 7. It is hard to follow , with lips that quiver , that moving speck on the far - off side . 8. Vast motives press upon us for lofty efforts . 9. That a nation could be thus ...
... fall . 6. This bleak old house will look lonely next year . 7. It is hard to follow , with lips that quiver , that moving speck on the far - off side . 8. Vast motives press upon us for lofty efforts . 9. That a nation could be thus ...
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... fall there are crowns to be broke ; So let each cavalier who loves honor and me , Come and follow the bonnets of bonnie Dundee ! " 14. “ I have been thinking all day , " said gently the Puritan maiden , " Dreaming all night , and ...
... fall there are crowns to be broke ; So let each cavalier who loves honor and me , Come and follow the bonnets of bonnie Dundee ! " 14. “ I have been thinking all day , " said gently the Puritan maiden , " Dreaming all night , and ...
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... falls slowly , and , amidst triumphant cries , he dies without a groan , without a struggle . 27. The swallows sang wild and high from their nests beneath the rafters ; and the world , sleeping beneath me , seemed more distant than the ...
... falls slowly , and , amidst triumphant cries , he dies without a groan , without a struggle . 27. The swallows sang wild and high from their nests beneath the rafters ; and the world , sleeping beneath me , seemed more distant than the ...
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... fall . EXERCISE XL . DIRECTION.- N. - Recast each of the following sentences , expressing the sense in as many different ways as possible : I. She resolved to become entirely free . 2. Fortune was still as unkind as ever . 3. The king ...
... fall . EXERCISE XL . DIRECTION.- N. - Recast each of the following sentences , expressing the sense in as many different ways as possible : I. She resolved to become entirely free . 2. Fortune was still as unkind as ever . 3. The king ...
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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