Composition-rhetoricAmerican Book Company, 1905 - 442 páginas |
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... Actions . Many of our most interest- ing experiences arise from observing the actions of others . A written description of what we have observed will gain in interest to the reader , if , in addition to telling what was done , it gives ...
... Actions . Many of our most interest- ing experiences arise from observing the actions of others . A written description of what we have observed will gain in interest to the reader , if , in addition to telling what was done , it gives ...
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... actions to another can be made with- out their use . Notice also the use of the relative clause to indicate time relations . - Theme V. Write a short theme , using some one of the subjects named under the preceding themes or one ...
... actions to another can be made with- out their use . Notice also the use of the relative clause to indicate time relations . - Theme V. Write a short theme , using some one of the subjects named under the preceding themes or one ...
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... action . In conversation , also , sentences are generally short , and often grammatically incomplete , though they may be understood by the hearer . Sometimes this incompleteness is justified by the idiom of the language , but more ...
... action . In conversation , also , sentences are generally short , and often grammatically incomplete , though they may be understood by the hearer . Sometimes this incompleteness is justified by the idiom of the language , but more ...
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... action , we need in story telling to be especially careful in our choice of verbs . What can you say of the suitability of the words in the following selection , taken from a school reader of seventy- five years ago ? Mrs. Lismore . You ...
... action , we need in story telling to be especially careful in our choice of verbs . What can you say of the suitability of the words in the following selection , taken from a school reader of seventy- five years ago ? Mrs. Lismore . You ...
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... actions and situations are so real . In fairy stories and similar tales neither characters nor actions are in any way limited by probability . - Theme X. Write a short story suggested by one of the subjects below . Make either the ...
... actions and situations are so real . In fairy stories and similar tales neither characters nor actions are in any way limited by probability . - Theme X. Write a short story suggested by one of the subjects below . Make either the ...
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accent action adjective Adverb anapest animal argument arrangement beautiful believe BROOKS'S RHETORIC business letters called cause character clear climax coherence comma comparison complimentary close composition conjunctions Consider correct definition denote determine effect emphasis enthymeme examples EXERCISES explanation exposition expression eyes facts figures of speech following selection fundamental image give given high school ideas impression inductive reasoning interest intransitive verbs language letter look meaning ment mind mountain narration narrative nature Notice noun object omitted outline paragraph participle person phrases picture plural poetry predicate present preterite pronouns proposition pupils purpose question reader relation relative pronouns ROGERS MILLER Section sentence side speech story subjunctive subordinate clauses subordinate conjunctions Suggested subjects syllables tell tence tense term things thought time-order tion topic statement trochee truth understand unity verb wish words Write a description written
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Página 334 - There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules. and frowning Mars; Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk; And these assume but valour's excrement, To render them redoubted.
Página 17 - I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gatebolts undrew ; "Speed...
Página 213 - HEAR the sledges with the bells— Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Página 209 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Página 367 - British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
Página 47 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Página 201 - Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
Página 367 - Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun ! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms ! Our brethren arc already in the field ! Why stand we here idle?
Página 321 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war ; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions ; or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace ; sought in its natural course, and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the...
Página 356 - ... faces. But the remedy is, not to remand him into his dungeon, but to accustom him to the rays of the sun. The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage.