Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... figure of language which represents the lower animals and inanimate objects as endowed with powers of being above their own . The figure is of three grades : ( 1 ) that in which inanimate objects are raised to the rank of brutes , ( 2 ) ...
... figure of language which represents the lower animals and inanimate objects as endowed with powers of being above their own . The figure is of three grades : ( 1 ) that in which inanimate objects are raised to the rank of brutes , ( 2 ) ...
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... Waves to sleep had gone . 19. In winter when the dismal rain Came down in slanting lines , And Wind , that grand old harper , smote His thunder - harp of pines . 20. O mountains , rivers , rocks , and savage FIGURES OF SPEECH . 229.
... Waves to sleep had gone . 19. In winter when the dismal rain Came down in slanting lines , And Wind , that grand old harper , smote His thunder - harp of pines . 20. O mountains , rivers , rocks , and savage FIGURES OF SPEECH . 229.
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... figure . ALLEGORY . Allegory is a form of expression in which the words are symbolical of something . The allegory is a continued met- aphor or a narrative representing objects and events that are intended to be symbolical of other ...
... figure . ALLEGORY . Allegory is a form of expression in which the words are symbolical of something . The allegory is a continued met- aphor or a narrative representing objects and events that are intended to be symbolical of other ...
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... figure must be in itself an intelligible , consist- ent statement , and this requires much skill . Allegory ... FIGURES OF SPEECH . 231.
... figure must be in itself an intelligible , consist- ent statement , and this requires much skill . Allegory ... FIGURES OF SPEECH . 231.
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... figure of speech in which the name of one object is put for some other object , the two being so closely related that the mention of one naturally suggests the other . Among the various relations which give rise to me- tonymy are ( 1 ) ...
... figure of speech in which the name of one object is put for some other object , the two being so closely related that the mention of one naturally suggests the other . Among the various relations which give rise to me- tonymy are ( 1 ) ...
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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