Working Principles of Rhetoric ...Ginn & Company, 1900 - 676 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 89
Seite vi
... , reader , and occasion . The book does not set up as an authority , except so far as its statements , fairly tested , prove self - justifying . Of any of the assertions here made the simple desire is , that student and vi PREFACE .
... , reader , and occasion . The book does not set up as an authority , except so far as its statements , fairly tested , prove self - justifying . Of any of the assertions here made the simple desire is , that student and vi PREFACE .
Seite 34
... assertion but as an exclamation , thus conveying with it his feeling of wonder . Connotation , as it may take an infinity of shadings and implications , may influence the reader in the subtlest ways ; but just so far as it enriches ...
... assertion but as an exclamation , thus conveying with it his feeling of wonder . Connotation , as it may take an infinity of shadings and implications , may influence the reader in the subtlest ways ; but just so far as it enriches ...
Seite 36
... assertion , like an aphorism or proverb , sets one thinking ; an assertion detailed and amplified does one's thinking , as it were , for him . The former is the more forcible , the latter more clear . Emerson's expression , " Hitch your ...
... assertion , like an aphorism or proverb , sets one thinking ; an assertion detailed and amplified does one's thinking , as it were , for him . The former is the more forcible , the latter more clear . Emerson's expression , " Hitch your ...
Seite 82
... assertion too full for one image to suffice for it ; such is Shakespeare's well - known line , " to take arms against a sea of troubles " ; such also Ruskin's expression , " allows himself to be swept away by the trampling torrent ...
... assertion too full for one image to suffice for it ; such is Shakespeare's well - known line , " to take arms against a sea of troubles " ; such also Ruskin's expression , " allows himself to be swept away by the trampling torrent ...
Seite 89
... assertion , when a verb that denotes a more partial or limited action is used for the larger or more comprehensive action natural to the object . EXAMPLES . — 1. Of Name - Synecdoche . It will be noted that the part named in the ...
... assertion , when a verb that denotes a more partial or limited action is used for the larger or more comprehensive action natural to the object . EXAMPLES . — 1. Of Name - Synecdoche . It will be noted that the part named in the ...
Inhalt
356 | |
379 | |
387 | |
396 | |
402 | |
420 | |
432 | |
475 | |
131 | |
135 | |
141 | |
163 | |
171 | |
221 | |
232 | |
259 | |
268 | |
311 | |
320 | |
335 | |
345 | |
481 | |
493 | |
508 | |
520 | |
529 | |
543 | |
554 | |
633 | |
663 | |
664 | |
671 | |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adjective adverb alliteration amphibrach anapestic antecedent antithesis argument assertion beauty become blank verse cæsura called character clause clear coloring composition conjunctions connotation coördinate definition diction discourse distinction EARLE effect element emotion employed English Prose epithet essay euphony EXAMPLES exposition expression fact feeling figure following sentence give grammatical iambic iambus idea idiom illustrate imagination important invention kind language less literary literature MATTHEW ARNOLD means ment merely metre metrical mind mood movement musical narrative natural NOTE noun object occasion paragraph passage pause phrasal phrase poetic poetic diction poetry present principle quoted reader reference relation relative relative clause rhetorical rhyme rhythm sense sound speech spondee stanza STEVENSON story stress style subordinate suggestion syllables syllogism tence tendency Tennyson things thought tion trimeter trochaic trochee truth verb verse W. D. HOWELLS wherein whole words writer
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 186 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Seite 304 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Seite 304 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said 'among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea,' yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Seite 26 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Seite 185 - I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell:
Seite 112 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
Seite 264 - But now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou seest — if indeed I go — (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of...
Seite 653 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent ; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! in this place, ran Cassius...
Seite 642 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Seite 501 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.