Rhetoric and CompositionH. Holt, 1906 - 259 páginas |
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... narration ... 154 75. Elements of narration . 155 76. Plot ..... 155 77. Characterization 159 78. Setting ..... 164 79. The point of view in narration .. 167 80. Selection of material 169 81. Order of events . 171 82. Movement and ...
... narration ... 154 75. Elements of narration . 155 76. Plot ..... 155 77. Characterization 159 78. Setting ..... 164 79. The point of view in narration .. 167 80. Selection of material 169 81. Order of events . 171 82. Movement and ...
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... narration events are grouped naturally accord- ing to their time relation . So in description , if the writer is trying to give an account of some object , he will naturally pass from one point or aspect of the object to that which is ...
... narration events are grouped naturally accord- ing to their time relation . So in description , if the writer is trying to give an account of some object , he will naturally pass from one point or aspect of the object to that which is ...
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... narration and description . In this case , the topic of the para- graph is seldom or never explicitly set forth . An example of this method may be seen in the following : The appearance of Rip , with his long grizzled beard , his rusty ...
... narration and description . In this case , the topic of the para- graph is seldom or never explicitly set forth . An example of this method may be seen in the following : The appearance of Rip , with his long grizzled beard , his rusty ...
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... narration , exposition , and argumentation . other that The basis of this classification is partly subject- matter and partly the aim or purpose of the discourse . Thus , a composition , when it deals with things , and deals with them ...
... narration , exposition , and argumentation . other that The basis of this classification is partly subject- matter and partly the aim or purpose of the discourse . Thus , a composition , when it deals with things , and deals with them ...
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... narration or argu- mentation . Hence it is not often that we find an example of any one kind of discourse in its purity . On the contrary , we find the various kinds more or less intermingled , shading into one another , in fact , and ...
... narration or argu- mentation . Hence it is not often that we find an example of any one kind of discourse in its purity . On the contrary , we find the various kinds more or less intermingled , shading into one another , in fact , and ...
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A. R. Wallace animals appearance argument Arlo Bates assertions beautiful beginning called CHAPTER characters classification clauses clear common composition conclusion contract coördinate course deal deductive defined discourse distinct division effect essential example exposition expressed fact fact of murder feet following passage genus give hand Hence Hester Prynne hypothesis idea illustration imagination inductive Inductive reasoning infer kind Lafcadio Hearn less logical look method Middlemarch mind Minor premise misused Mother Shipton narration narrative nature ness never observed Ordinarily Oregon Trail paragraph particular periodic sentence persuasion phrases point of view premises principles proposition purpose R. L. Stevenson reader reasoning regarded relation Rhetoric seldom sense sentence species Stevenson story structure style SUBJECTS FOR THEMES SUGGESTED SUBJECTS Sullivan's Island syllogisms term testimonial evidence things thought tion tive topic truth unity variety whole wishes words writer
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Página 181 - He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarrassed action of those about him; and he concurs with their movements rather than takes the initiative himself.
Página 236 - No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good : that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness...
Página 46 - The orator bustled up to him, and, drawing him partly aside, inquired "on which side he voted?" Rip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm, and, rising on tiptoe, inquired in his ear, "Whether he was Federal or Democrat?
Página 46 - They crowded round him, eyeing him from head to foot with great curiosity. The orator bustled up to him, and, drawing him partly aside, inquired on which side he voted.
Página 39 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative, a due subordination is observed ; some transactions are prominent, others retire.
Página 140 - Be that as it might, the scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to Hester Prynne the entire track along which she had been treading, since her happy infancy.
Página 170 - Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir...
Página 144 - Cape Cod is the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts: the shoulder is at Buzzard's Bay; the elbow, or crazy-bone, at Cape Mallebarre; the wrist at Truro; and the sandy fist at Provincetown, — behind which the State stands on her guard, with her back to the Green Mountains, and her feet planted on the floor of the ocean, like an athlete protecting her Bay...
Página 39 - He shows us the court, the camp, and the senate. But he shows us also the nation. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant for his notice which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, and of education, and to mark the progress of the human mind.
Página 217 - But that the legislature can repeal statutes creating private corporations, or confirming to them property already acquired under the faith of previous laws, and by such repeal can vest the property of such corporations exclusively in the State, or dispose of the same to such purposes as they may please, without the consent or default of the corporators...