Composition-rhetoricAmerican Book Company, 1905 - 442 páginas |
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... necessary to include these four elements in the introduction , yet it is desirable to do so in most cases of oral story telling . Incidents taken from books may not have them stated because the reader is already familiar with them from ...
... necessary to include these four elements in the introduction , yet it is desirable to do so in most cases of oral story telling . Incidents taken from books may not have them stated because the reader is already familiar with them from ...
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... necessary that a story be concerned with a thrilling event in order to be interesting . Even a most commonplace occurrence may be so told that it is worth listening to . It is more impor- tant that a story have a point and be so told ...
... necessary that a story be concerned with a thrilling event in order to be interesting . Even a most commonplace occurrence may be so told that it is worth listening to . It is more impor- tant that a story have a point and be so told ...
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... necessary to add anything to the story ? EXERCISE In each of the following selections decide where the interest reaches its climax . Has anything been said in the beginning of any of them which suggests what the point will be , or which ...
... necessary to add anything to the story ? EXERCISE In each of the following selections decide where the interest reaches its climax . Has anything been said in the beginning of any of them which suggests what the point will be , or which ...
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... necessary . Got is one of the words used too fre- quently , and often incorrectly . EXERCISE 1. In the following selection notice how each sentence begins . Compare it with one of your own themes . I was witness to events of a less ...
... necessary . Got is one of the words used too fre- quently , and often incorrectly . EXERCISE 1. In the following selection notice how each sentence begins . Compare it with one of your own themes . I was witness to events of a less ...
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... necessary , reconstruct the sentences so as to avoid using the word in some cases . Notice how these substitutions give a variety to your expression and improve the euphony of your composition . ---- Theme VII . Write a short story ...
... necessary , reconstruct the sentences so as to avoid using the word in some cases . Notice how these substitutions give a variety to your expression and improve the euphony of your composition . ---- Theme VII . Write a short story ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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.