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... speech " are artificial or fancy ways of saying what a plain - speaking man could say simply . But the important figures of speech are not mere tricks of rhetoric ; they are modes in which our minds really operate . As the biologist ...
... speech " are artificial or fancy ways of saying what a plain - speaking man could say simply . But the important figures of speech are not mere tricks of rhetoric ; they are modes in which our minds really operate . As the biologist ...
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... speech . This is not theoretical material to be merely read ; these are physical facts to be acted out physically - to be felt and tried in the mouth as we read . 5 10 15 20 25 Not Sense The tongue shapes and molds sound . Speech ...
... speech . This is not theoretical material to be merely read ; these are physical facts to be acted out physically - to be felt and tried in the mouth as we read . 5 10 15 20 25 Not Sense The tongue shapes and molds sound . Speech ...
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... speech , which , as we have seen , are really ways of thinking . Inversion of the normal word order is one of the most obvious of these figures of speech . Sometimes even good writers have been known to wrench words out of the natural ...
... speech , which , as we have seen , are really ways of thinking . Inversion of the normal word order is one of the most obvious of these figures of speech . Sometimes even good writers have been known to wrench words out of the natural ...
Common terms and phrases
accent alliteration Anthology beauty begins better bird blue body breath called close cold color comes dark dead death deep dreams earth effect emotion English example express eyes face fall feel feet fields flowers four Frost girl give green hair hand head hear heard heart holds human images John keep kind language leaves light lines live look meaning metaphor mind moon mouth move nature never night objects once pass play poem poet poetry rain rhyme rhythm Robert rose seems sense SHAKESPEARE shape sing sometimes song sound speech stand stanza sweet syllables symbol tell thee things thou thought trees turn verse vowel walk wind words writing Yeats young