The Writer's Handbook, a Guide to the Art of Composition, Embracing a General Treatise on Composition and Style: Instruction in English Composition, with Exercises for Paraphrasing; and an Elaborate Letter-writer's Vademecum, in which are Numerous Rules and Suggestions Relating to the Epistolary Art, Volumes 1-3 |
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... Personification ; Apos- trophe ; Hyperbole ; Comparison ; Metaphor ; Allegory ; Concise and Diffuse Style ; Nervous and Feeble Style ; Vehement Style ; Plain Style ; Neat Style ; Graceful Style ; Florid Style ; the Simple and the ...
... Personification ; Apos- trophe ; Hyperbole ; Comparison ; Metaphor ; Allegory ; Concise and Diffuse Style ; Nervous and Feeble Style ; Vehement Style ; Plain Style ; Neat Style ; Graceful Style ; Florid Style ; the Simple and the ...
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... HARMONY IN THE STRUCTURE OF SEN- TENCES 99 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN GENERAL • 113 PERSONIFICATION 118 APOSTROPHE • 129 HYPERBOLE 131 COMPARISON 134 METAPHOR 146 ALLEGORY 160 • THE CONCISE AND THE DIFFUSE STYLE 163 xii Contents of Part I.
... HARMONY IN THE STRUCTURE OF SEN- TENCES 99 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN GENERAL • 113 PERSONIFICATION 118 APOSTROPHE • 129 HYPERBOLE 131 COMPARISON 134 METAPHOR 146 ALLEGORY 160 • THE CONCISE AND THE DIFFUSE STYLE 163 xii Contents of Part I.
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... personifications and apostrophes ; where , though we vary the words which are used , or translate them from one language into another , we may still preserve the same figure . The distinction however is of very little importance ...
... personifications and apostrophes ; where , though we vary the words which are used , or translate them from one language into another , we may still preserve the same figure . The distinction however is of very little importance ...
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... PERSONIFICATION . THE boldest effort of the imagination seems to be that which bestows sensibility and voluntary motion upon things inanimate . At first view , one would be disposed to conclude that this figure borders on the ...
... PERSONIFICATION . THE boldest effort of the imagination seems to be that which bestows sensibility and voluntary motion upon things inanimate . At first view , one would be disposed to conclude that this figure borders on the ...
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... and a soliloquy frequently answers this purpose . But when such a passion becomes excessive , it cannot be gratified except by sympathy from others ; and if denied. * Beattie's Essay on Poetry and Music . F 11 Personification . 119.
... and a soliloquy frequently answers this purpose . But when such a passion becomes excessive , it cannot be gratified except by sympathy from others ; and if denied. * Beattie's Essay on Poetry and Music . F 11 Personification . 119.
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