Constructive RhetoricH. Holt, 1896 - 352 pages |
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adjectives Allegory already Antonomasia antonyms argument beginning character clear College common comparison connection consider constructive course critical deal definite Description devices division effect Emerson English English language essay examples exercise Exposition expression fact familiar feel figure Figures of Speech German literature give idea illustration important impression instance JOHN DURAND kinds of composition knowledge language literature look Macaulay matter Matthew Arnold means ment mentioned merely metaphor Metonymy mind mode Narration nature Newman nouns paragraph structure particular thing perhaps periodic sentence practice present principle proposition prose question reader reason Rhetoric Ridgefield Robert of Brunne seems sentence structure simile simple Solecisms speaking speech statement student suggestive Synecdoche term thought tion topic treatment uncon Unity University usage usually verbs vocabulary Walt Whitman Walter Pater words writing
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