Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... marks ; in the indirect , the marks are not used . In substituting the indirect form of speech for the direct , the principal variations are : ( 1 ) The first and second persons are changed to the third . ( 2 ) The present tense is ...
... marks ; in the indirect , the marks are not used . In substituting the indirect form of speech for the direct , the principal variations are : ( 1 ) The first and second persons are changed to the third . ( 2 ) The present tense is ...
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... marks of superior wisdom , power , and goodness in the frame of it , as may that it is truly divine . 13. Timely - Seasonable - Opportune . ( a ) Mercy is time of affliction . in the in to their succor , beat them back place shall never ...
... marks of superior wisdom , power , and goodness in the frame of it , as may that it is truly divine . 13. Timely - Seasonable - Opportune . ( a ) Mercy is time of affliction . in the in to their succor , beat them back place shall never ...
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... mark the grammatical relations of words , position is a matter of prime importance . The sentence , " The savage here the settler slew , " is not clear . The sub- ject and the object of the transitive verb are both placed before the ...
... mark the grammatical relations of words , position is a matter of prime importance . The sentence , " The savage here the settler slew , " is not clear . The sub- ject and the object of the transitive verb are both placed before the ...
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... marks were most intolerable and extremely inconsistent in the eyes of his enemies " ; " The boundless plains in the heart of the country furnished inexhaustible supplies of corn , that would have almost sufficed for twice the pop ...
... marks were most intolerable and extremely inconsistent in the eyes of his enemies " ; " The boundless plains in the heart of the country furnished inexhaustible supplies of corn , that would have almost sufficed for twice the pop ...
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... marks to which attention is directed are brought out more vividly when the opposition of thought is made apparent by the structure of the sentence ; hence , the proper form of antithesis is the balanced sentence - a sentence in which ...
... marks to which attention is directed are brought out more vividly when the opposition of thought is made apparent by the structure of the sentence ; hence , the proper form of antithesis is the balanced sentence - a sentence in which ...
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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