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... original subject of the Rhetorical art , and its rules were highly elaborated in an- cient times . It presents great difficulties to the teacher . Besides the wide range of the matters involved in per- suasive address , there is a ...
... original subject of the Rhetorical art , and its rules were highly elaborated in an- cient times . It presents great difficulties to the teacher . Besides the wide range of the matters involved in per- suasive address , there is a ...
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... Original comparisons , besides having the effects just stated , cause an agreeable SURPRISE , and are intro- duced into composition with that view . A comparison that is new and not obvious , strikes us with a pleasurable flash , even ...
... Original comparisons , besides having the effects just stated , cause an agreeable SURPRISE , and are intro- duced into composition with that view . A comparison that is new and not obvious , strikes us with a pleasurable flash , even ...
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... original meaning is no longer sug gested to the mind . In other cases , the words are still used in their primitive as well as in a figurative sense , and hence they continue to have a certain illustrative force of similarity ; as ...
... original meaning is no longer sug gested to the mind . In other cases , the words are still used in their primitive as well as in a figurative sense , and hence they continue to have a certain illustrative force of similarity ; as ...
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... original meaning as to give the sense of harmony when the figure is attended to . Thus , to say " the impression was con- veyed " involves a certain degree of inconsistency , although quite intelligible . " Upon the style it is that ...
... original meaning as to give the sense of harmony when the figure is attended to . Thus , to say " the impression was con- veyed " involves a certain degree of inconsistency , although quite intelligible . " Upon the style it is that ...
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... original sense of the words , but to the established usages of the language . ( 2. ) The straining of a Metaphor . By this is meant the pursuing of the figure into details that are irrelevant or out of keeping . Young , speaking of old ...
... original sense of the words , but to the established usages of the language . ( 2. ) The straining of a Metaphor . By this is meant the pursuing of the figure into details that are irrelevant or out of keeping . Young , speaking of old ...
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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