The Practical Elements of Rhetoric: With Illustrative ExamplesGinn, 1892 - 488 páginas |
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... condensing and expanding , making severely accurate and making freely loose . Such a habit is of untold value as a means of famil- iarizing the literary workman with his tools . NOTE . It often happens that a close thinker has an idea ...
... condensing and expanding , making severely accurate and making freely loose . Such a habit is of untold value as a means of famil- iarizing the literary workman with his tools . NOTE . It often happens that a close thinker has an idea ...
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... condensed construction violent . Compare with him some passages from Browning : - " You have the sunrise now , ^ joins truth to truth , Shoots life and substance into death and void , " where the subject - relative is omitted ...
... condensed construction violent . Compare with him some passages from Browning : - " You have the sunrise now , ^ joins truth to truth , Shoots life and substance into death and void , " where the subject - relative is omitted ...
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... condensed simile ; and by as much as it gains in brevity , it is naturally better adapted to produce a forcible and vivid impression . Hence it is more used in impassioned discourse , and in dramatic poetry , which is the poetry of ...
... condensed simile ; and by as much as it gains in brevity , it is naturally better adapted to produce a forcible and vivid impression . Hence it is more used in impassioned discourse , and in dramatic poetry , which is the poetry of ...
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... condensed by being combined , in the same word , with a preposition , or with the antecedent . Thus , wherein , whereby may be used for in which , by which : " Great vir- tues often save , and always illustrate , the age and nation ...
... condensed by being combined , in the same word , with a preposition , or with the antecedent . Thus , wherein , whereby may be used for in which , by which : " Great vir- tues often save , and always illustrate , the age and nation ...
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... condensed structure ( See Condensation ) where occasion permits , and by inconspicuous position of the subordinated clause . The opposite means are relied on for making the condition emphatic . EXAMPLES . - Note the difference in ...
... condensed structure ( See Condensation ) where occasion permits , and by inconspicuous position of the subordinated clause . The opposite means are relied on for making the condition emphatic . EXAMPLES . - Note the difference in ...
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adapted adverb amplification antecedent argument called character Charles James Fox clause clearness conclusion condensed construction coördinate course definition determined diction discourse distinction effect elements emotion employed English epithet essay EXAMPLES exposition expression fact feeling figure figure of speech George Henry Lewes give habit hearer idea illustrate imagination important indicated instance intellect interest introduction invention kind language less literary literature logical Macaulay major premise Matthew Arnold means ment merely Metonymy mind narration narrative nature NOTE object observed occasion oratory paragraph particular passage periodic sentence phrase poetic poetic diction poetry preceding premise present principle prose qualities reader reductio ad absurdum reference regarded relation repetition requires Rhetoric Rufus Choate scene sense sentence significance simile speech structure style subordinate suggestion syllogism Synecdoche tence theme things thought tion true truth verb whole word-painting words writer
Pasajes populares
Página 364 - I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord : he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live : and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.
Página 452 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! In this place ran Cassius...
Página 340 - I have of late , (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercises; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy , the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appeareth nothing to me, but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 158 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Página 308 - BRETHREN, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand ; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
Página 462 - Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
Página 309 - Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Página 124 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock, and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him, but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Página 160 - If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them. Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away.
Página 319 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.