The Working Principles of Rhetoric Examined in Their Literary Relations and Illustrated with ExamplesGinn, 1900 - 676 páginas |
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... words ; but when it comes to strenuous and deep thought , requiring close analysis and discrimination , evidently ... words he chooses to name his thought , rather than on the way words are put together . The following are the principal ...
... words ; but when it comes to strenuous and deep thought , requiring close analysis and discrimination , evidently ... words he chooses to name his thought , rather than on the way words are put together . The following are the principal ...
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... words and phrases , and of their orderly progress in building up the sentence and paragraph . The following are the general aspects that such regard for structure assumes : 1. A keen grammatical sense ; instant adjustment of all syn ...
... words and phrases , and of their orderly progress in building up the sentence and paragraph . The following are the general aspects that such regard for structure assumes : 1. A keen grammatical sense ; instant adjustment of all syn ...
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... words and figures , so far at least as to require the simplest words and the homeliest illustrations consistent with accuracy . To go farther than this , employ- ing on the score of their plainness words and illustrations not ...
... words and figures , so far at least as to require the simplest words and the homeliest illustrations consistent with accuracy . To go farther than this , employ- ing on the score of their plainness words and illustrations not ...
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... words , words that connote the vigor and plain simplicity of homely thought . A specific word is stronger than a general or comprehensive one ; short words ordinarily more forcible than long ; Saxon derivatives than Latin or Greek ...
... words , words that connote the vigor and plain simplicity of homely thought . A specific word is stronger than a general or comprehensive one ; short words ordinarily more forcible than long ; Saxon derivatives than Latin or Greek ...
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... words of a passage , so that the strong elements , the vital words , may stand forth unshaded . - Emphasis : or Force through Arrangement . - In oral discourse emphasis may be given to any word by giving it greater stress in enunciation ...
... words of a passage , so that the strong elements , the vital words , may stand forth unshaded . - Emphasis : or Force through Arrangement . - In oral discourse emphasis may be given to any word by giving it greater stress in enunciation ...
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adjective adverb alliteration amphibrach amplification anapestic antecedent archaism assertion beauty become blank verse cæsura called character clause clear coloring composition conjunctions connotation coördinate discourse distinction EARLE effect elements emotion employed English Prose epithet Essay euphony EXAMPLES expression fact feeling figure following sentence give grammatical habit iambic iambus idea illustrate imagination invention kind language less literary literature marked MATTHEW ARNOLD means merely metaphor metonymy metre metrical mind mood movement musical natural NOTE object occasion paragraph passage pause phrasal phrase poetic diction poetry present principle prose diction quoted reader reference relation relative clause rhetorical rhyme rhythm sense simile sound speech spirit spondee stage stanza STEVENSON structure style subordinate suggestion syllables synecdoche taste tence tendency Tennyson theme things thinking thought tion topic trochaic trochee truth uncon usage verb verse vocabulary wherein whole word-painting words writer
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Página 306 - 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 28 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 114 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
Página 151 - he said, and pointed toward the land, ' This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Página 50 - to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands." I am astonished — I am shocked to hear such principles confessed — -to hear them avowed in this house or in this country.
Página 152 - In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem.
Página 309 - 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 166 - VENERABLE MEN! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed ! You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes...
Página 503 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone 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 appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 189 - Scorn not the Sonnet ; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honors ; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart ; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound ; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound ; With it...