Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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Seite 48
... tell his wife . What the wife says . The birds take their flight . The farmer keeps the nest to show . Conclusion . The effect of the farmer's kindness on his own heart . * * NOTE . In all kinds of discourse there are but three main ...
... tell his wife . What the wife says . The birds take their flight . The farmer keeps the nest to show . Conclusion . The effect of the farmer's kindness on his own heart . * * NOTE . In all kinds of discourse there are but three main ...
Seite 51
... tell how the shep- herd passed the time while tending his sheep . Discussion . The favorite of the flock comes one day for his caress . His love for her awakens in him a great desire . His effort to picture her on the rock . The great ...
... tell how the shep- herd passed the time while tending his sheep . Discussion . The favorite of the flock comes one day for his caress . His love for her awakens in him a great desire . His effort to picture her on the rock . The great ...
Seite 54
... tell all that we think is inexpedient . 12. Confessing the truth , I was greatly to blame for my indiscretion . 13. To pull down the false and to build up the true , and to uphold what there is of true in the old , -let this be our ...
... tell all that we think is inexpedient . 12. Confessing the truth , I was greatly to blame for my indiscretion . 13. To pull down the false and to build up the true , and to uphold what there is of true in the old , -let this be our ...
Seite 57
... Tell me how old you were when I first met you . 2. The fact that he was there has been clearly shown . 3. He did not tell me why he went away . 4. Except ye repent , ye shall all likewise perish . 5. He will go to ruin unless he alter ...
... Tell me how old you were when I first met you . 2. The fact that he was there has been clearly shown . 3. He did not tell me why he went away . 4. Except ye repent , ye shall all likewise perish . 5. He will go to ruin unless he alter ...
Seite 60
... tell the kind of phrase into which each dependent clause is contracted : 1. He was there when the train arrived . 2. When Xerxes had resolved to invade Greece , he raised an army of two millions of men . 3. If your friends come , they ...
... tell the kind of phrase into which each dependent clause is contracted : 1. He was there when the train arrived . 2. When Xerxes had resolved to invade Greece , he raised an army of two millions of men . 3. If your friends come , they ...
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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