A Text-book on Rhetoric: Supplementing the Development of the Science with Exhaustive Practice in Composition : a Course of Practical Lessons Adapted for Use in High Schools and Academies and in the Lower Classes of CollegesClark & Maynard, 1886 - 276 pages |
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adjective clauses adverb clauses amphibrach anapæst Anglo-Saxon Balthazar Gérard beauty Bring cæsura called comma complex sentences compound sentences connected denote dependent dependent clauses Direction Direction.-Classify Direction.-Do Direction.-Point Direction.-Write sentences discourse energy English expression feeling feet figure of speech foot give heaven iambus imagery independent clauses infinitive phrases intellect justify the punctuation Kellogg's kind learned letters loose sentence meaning metaphors metonymy metre mind modifiers natural never note the loss noun clauses object participles perspicuity plain language poet poetry preceding Lesson predicate prepositional phrase preterits pronouns prose pupil quality of style reader or hearer relation rhetorical value rhyme Roman seen sense sentences containing sentences illustrating SENTENCES INTO PARAGRAPHS Shakespeare simple sentences speak stand substituted syllable synecdoche SYNTHESIS OF SENTENCES teach tence things thou thought tion tongue topic trochee verb verse writing observe