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... beauty , may sometimes stand for the young , the beautiful ; the figurative effect lies in isolating , as it were , the main quality , and thus giving it greater prominence . A minor figure of similarity is the application of numbers to ...
... beauty , may sometimes stand for the young , the beautiful ; the figurative effect lies in isolating , as it were , the main quality , and thus giving it greater prominence . A minor figure of similarity is the application of numbers to ...
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... Beauty ( artistic effects ) ; Painting and Poetry ( fine arts ) . The process of classification , whereby things are brought together on some point of resemblance , is accompanied with the marking of differences . We come to know heat ...
... Beauty ( artistic effects ) ; Painting and Poetry ( fine arts ) . The process of classification , whereby things are brought together on some point of resemblance , is accompanied with the marking of differences . We come to know heat ...
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... Beauty , when unadorned , ' s adorned the most , " is an epigrammatic form of saying that natural beauty is better without artificial decoration . 66 This is a figure of frequent occurrence . It is naturally confounded with Antithesis ...
... Beauty , when unadorned , ' s adorned the most , " is an epigrammatic form of saying that natural beauty is better without artificial decoration . 66 This is a figure of frequent occurrence . It is naturally confounded with Antithesis ...
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... Beauty ( in a narrow sense ) ; a contrast answering to the oppo- sition of the Active and Passive sides of our nature . To these two classes of effects , we must add the peculiar qualities denoted by the Ludicrous , Humor and Wit . It ...
... Beauty ( in a narrow sense ) ; a contrast answering to the oppo- sition of the Active and Passive sides of our nature . To these two classes of effects , we must add the peculiar qualities denoted by the Ludicrous , Humor and Wit . It ...
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... beauty does not lie in simple forms . " CLEARNESS . 75. Clearness is opposed to obscurity , vagueness , am- biguity , or ill - defined boundaries . A statement is clear when there is no possibility of con- founding it with anything else ...
... beauty does not lie in simple forms . " CLEARNESS . 75. Clearness is opposed to obscurity , vagueness , am- biguity , or ill - defined boundaries . A statement is clear when there is no possibility of con- founding it with anything else ...
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abstract alliterations Antithesis arrangement balanced bay color beauty brevity called character circumstances clause comparison composition concrete concrete Extract connection consonants contrast degradation degree Demosthenes described effect emotion English epigram example excitement exposition expression facts figure genius give given harmony Hence History human humor hyperbole Iliad illustration implies impression instances iteration kind language ludicrous meaning melody ment metaphor method metonymy mind mode moral mountains narrative nation nature noun nuendo objects obverse orator pain paragraph pathos Pearl Coast person personification phatic Plato pleasure Pleonasm poet poetic poetry political politics of Poland predicate principle proposition reference rivers sense sentence sentiment simile sions Socrates sometimes sound statement strength style sublime subordinate suggest syllables Synecdoche tautologies tence tender feeling things thou thought tion Transferred Epithet truth variety verb vowels writer