A Minimum Course in RhetoricCentury Company, 1922 - 450 páginas |
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... Models I - VI , Ex- ercise 55 ; Semiformal Letters ( 244-245 ) , Models VII - VIII , Exercise 56 ; Informal Letters ( 246 ) , Model IX , Exercise 57 ; Notes in Third Person ( 247 ) , Models X - XII , Exercise 58 115 APPENDIX 6 ...
... Models I - VI , Ex- ercise 55 ; Semiformal Letters ( 244-245 ) , Models VII - VIII , Exercise 56 ; Informal Letters ( 246 ) , Model IX , Exercise 57 ; Notes in Third Person ( 247 ) , Models X - XII , Exercise 58 115 APPENDIX 6 ...
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... MODEL OF FORCEFULNESS 148. Daniel Webster was a master of the forceful style . The following passage from his speech The Reply of Hayne may serve as a model of forceful sentence - structure : " I profess , sir , in my career , hitherto ...
... MODEL OF FORCEFULNESS 148. Daniel Webster was a master of the forceful style . The following passage from his speech The Reply of Hayne may serve as a model of forceful sentence - structure : " I profess , sir , in my career , hitherto ...
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... model outline and topic - sentences for a somewhat different type of story ( A Gorilla Hunt ) are given and dis- cussed in sections 14 , 36-38 , and 45-46 . Exercise 51 , in Appendix 12 , treats of the creation of sus- pense before the ...
... model outline and topic - sentences for a somewhat different type of story ( A Gorilla Hunt ) are given and dis- cussed in sections 14 , 36-38 , and 45-46 . Exercise 51 , in Appendix 12 , treats of the creation of sus- pense before the ...
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... place in some definite , logical course . 212. If what you are describing is still in existence , use the present tense , even though you last saw it a long while ago . 213. A model outline and topic - sentences for a 97.
... place in some definite , logical course . 212. If what you are describing is still in existence , use the present tense , even though you last saw it a long while ago . 213. A model outline and topic - sentences for a 97.
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Henry Copp Edgar. 213. A model outline and topic - sentences for a description are given and discussed in sections 15 , 39-40 , and 47-48 . Exercise 52 , in Appendix 12 , treats of the choice and order of details in description . Part IV ...
Henry Copp Edgar. 213. A model outline and topic - sentences for a description are given and discussed in sections 15 , 39-40 , and 47-48 . Exercise 52 , in Appendix 12 , treats of the choice and order of details in description . Part IV ...
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1st paragraph accents adjective adverb amphibrachic anapest Appendix 12 argument asked Athelstane avoiding beginning cæsura called captain Cedric clear comma construction Corrected dangerous English example Exercise following sentences football force foregoing friends give gorilla grammatical Gurth hand horse iambic pentameter indicate infinitive interesting Ivanhoe kind King Arthur Laertes LESSON letter Log Cabin look main clause main idea means ment meter Misplaced modifier MODEL never night object onomatopoeia party periodic sentence person pleasant or delightful poetry preposition punctuation question Rebuttal relative pronoun repetition Right rule scansion sections sense of extremely slang slangy sense sound speech spondaic story street subordinate clause subordinating conjunction syllable symbol tell Templar tences theme thing thought tion told topic-sentence transition treats verb vowel Wamba weak reference whole words write Wrong
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Página 137 - Ah! my Lord Arthur, whither shall I go? Where shall I hide my forehead and my eyes? For now I see the true old times are dead, When every morning brought a noble chance, And every chance brought out a noble knight.
Página 54 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole. country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad.
Página 128 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 335 - To HELEN Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Página 141 - Larger than human on the frozen hills. He heard the deep behind him, and a cry Before. His own thought drove him like a goad. Dry...
Página 334 - Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short ; Youth is nimble, age is lame ; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold ; Youth is wild, and age is tame...
Página 137 - The holy Elders with the gift of myrrh. But now the whole Round Table is dissolved Which was an image of the mighty world; And I, the last, go forth companionless, And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
Página 334 - He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Página 130 - Thou hast betray'd thy nature and thy name, Not rendering true answer, as beseem'd Thy fealty, nor like a noble knight: For surer sign had follow'd , either hand , Or voice, or else a motion of the mere. This is a shameful thing for men to lie. Yet now, I charge thee, quickly go again As thou art lief and dear, and do the thing I bade thee, watch, and lightly bring me word.
Página 79 - Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains ; and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky ; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapours about their summits, which, in the...