Composition and Rhetoric Based on Literary ModelsRand, McNally, 1902 - 423 pages |
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... coördinate statements when the thoughts expressed are coördinate . Sentence Study IV . shows how a coördinate state- ment may be reduced to a subordinate element in the sentence . Students often use the compound sentence when the ...
... coördinate statements when the thoughts expressed are coördinate . Sentence Study IV . shows how a coördinate state- ment may be reduced to a subordinate element in the sentence . Students often use the compound sentence when the ...
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... Coördinate statement - showing accompanying action : He closed his eyes with a sigh and said , “ Give it to me . " 10. Independent statement- ing action or condition : John was broken - hearted . showing accompany- " Give it to me ...
... Coördinate statement - showing accompanying action : He closed his eyes with a sigh and said , “ Give it to me . " 10. Independent statement- ing action or condition : John was broken - hearted . showing accompany- " Give it to me ...
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... coördinate words , phrases , or clauses . The sentence would be com- plete each time if read with the portions in paren- theses omitted . " Not so long and wide the world is , ( Not so rude and rough the way is , ) But my wrath shall ...
... coördinate words , phrases , or clauses . The sentence would be com- plete each time if read with the portions in paren- theses omitted . " Not so long and wide the world is , ( Not so rude and rough the way is , ) But my wrath shall ...
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... coördinate phrases , clauses , etc. Many other examples of this kind of elaboration occur in Hiawatha . - SUGGESTIONS . Read the above quotations , omitting the por- tions within the parentheses . Are the sentences complete ? Exercise ...
... coördinate phrases , clauses , etc. Many other examples of this kind of elaboration occur in Hiawatha . - SUGGESTIONS . Read the above quotations , omitting the por- tions within the parentheses . Are the sentences complete ? Exercise ...
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... coördinate statements .. Let the coördination be between words , phrases , and clauses , not between statements : I. ( " Our royalists were not heartless , dangling court- iers . They did not bow at every word . They did not simper ...
... coördinate statements .. Let the coördination be between words , phrases , and clauses , not between statements : I. ( " Our royalists were not heartless , dangling court- iers . They did not bow at every word . They did not simper ...
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According to Theme-model Chapter character clause coördinate described description of personal diagram dialogue direct quotation Essay EXAMPLE FOR ANALYSIS Exercise Write exposition expository paragraph expression eyes Find examples Find material forward-moving narrative four w's fundamental device fundamental quality GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS give given graph HENRY W Jean François Millet JOHN RUSKIN Jules Eugène Lenepveu kind material in Act material in paragraphs means mentioned Merchant of Venice metaphor Minor devices Mock Turtle motives narration NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE occasion outline painting paragraph structure paragraph-the parallel construction personal appearance phrase picture piece of literature poem Portia Story questions in section reproduction retrospective narrative Scene section 291 sentence relation Sentence Study Shylock simile Simon Griggs situation elements Situation-type speech Stone Face student subordinate SUGGESTIONS summarizes tell theme Theme-model II third THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thou tion topic verb words Write a paragraph
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Page 223 - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven...
Page 234 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...
Page 180 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse ; Such* as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page 77 - She saw her brother Peterkin Roll something large and round, Which he beside the rivulet In playing there had found ; He came to ask what he had found, That was so large, and smooth, and round.
Page 233 - We will return no more;" And all at once they sang, " Our island home Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam." CHORIC SONG •"THERE is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
Page 196 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint...
Page 189 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 213 - Alas ! (thought I, and my heart beat loud) How fast she nears and nears! Are those her sails that glance in the Sun, Like restless gossameres?
Page 66 - The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
Page 229 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.