Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... smell sweet " ; " She looks beautiful " ; " He feels strong . " Correct the errors in the following , and give reason for the correction : He acted agreeable to his promise . That music sounds 84 COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC .
... smell sweet " ; " She looks beautiful " ; " He feels strong . " Correct the errors in the following , and give reason for the correction : He acted agreeable to his promise . That music sounds 84 COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC .
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... sounds very sweetly . He was pretty near tired out . He was dressed fine , but he acted fearful bad . That was a remarkable fine sermon . The work goes on slower than we expected . Her new dress looked very prettily . The people are ...
... sounds very sweetly . He was pretty near tired out . He was dressed fine , but he acted fearful bad . That was a remarkable fine sermon . The work goes on slower than we expected . Her new dress looked very prettily . The people are ...
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... sounds have each of the vowels ? 50. Napoleon wished to have made Lucien king of Spain . 51. Nothing but vain and foolish pursuits delight some persons . 52. You think you shall go to the city , then ? 53. One of the most trying things ...
... sounds have each of the vowels ? 50. Napoleon wished to have made Lucien king of Spain . 51. Nothing but vain and foolish pursuits delight some persons . 52. You think you shall go to the city , then ? 53. One of the most trying things ...
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... sound I heard . And looking up at that mournful call , I spied on a branch near the old stone wall , Trembling and twittering , ready to fall , The poor little mother - bird . With grief and terror her heart was wrung ; And while to the ...
... sound I heard . And looking up at that mournful call , I spied on a branch near the old stone wall , Trembling and twittering , ready to fall , The poor little mother - bird . With grief and terror her heart was wrung ; And while to the ...
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... sounds , departures from regu- lar cadence , have sometimes a good effect . Monotony is the great fault into which writers are apt to fall who are fond of harmonious arrangement ; and to have only one tune or measure is not much better ...
... sounds , departures from regu- lar cadence , have sometimes a good effect . Monotony is the great fault into which writers are apt to fall who are fond of harmonious arrangement ; and to have only one tune or measure is not much better ...
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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