A Practical Rhetoric of Expository ProseOxford University Press, 1966 - 583 Seiten |
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... sound and rhythm of the sentence should not interfere with what the writer wants to say . We have all had the experience of reading a book that seems to lull us into semi - consciousness ; we read on and on , until after some pages we ...
... sound and rhythm of the sentence should not interfere with what the writer wants to say . We have all had the experience of reading a book that seems to lull us into semi - consciousness ; we read on and on , until after some pages we ...
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... sound . " Even in onomatopoetic words ( those which , like “ slurp , ” directly imitate a sound ) there is much difference from culture to culture . The Frenchman's word for a rooster's crowing looks and sounds different from an ...
... sound . " Even in onomatopoetic words ( those which , like “ slurp , ” directly imitate a sound ) there is much difference from culture to culture . The Frenchman's word for a rooster's crowing looks and sounds different from an ...
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... sound qualities , including rhyme , can serve a function , both com- municative and aesthetic , within the sentence ... sound is — or can be a positive element in prose . It is less signifi- cant than rhythm , but it is not negligible ...
... sound qualities , including rhyme , can serve a function , both com- municative and aesthetic , within the sentence ... sound is — or can be a positive element in prose . It is less signifi- cant than rhythm , but it is not negligible ...
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Communication and Rhetoric | 3 |
WRITING AS A PROCESS | 17 |
Invention | 32 |
Urheberrecht | |
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A. J. Liebling adjective adverbs American awkward beginning called chapter clarity clause clear closing co-ordination comma common composition concise construction context deadwood definition devices diction dictionary discuss E. B. White effect emphasis employed English essay example exposition expository expression F. L. Lucas fact feeling final following sentence formal G. K. Chesterton going grammatical H. L. Mencken Hilaire Belloc idea important independent clauses instance James Thurber kind language less logical mark meaning metaphors modifiers noun object outline paragraph parallel parataxis passage pattern phrase plural prepositional problem pronoun prose punctuation purpose quotation quoted reader reason relative revision rhetorical question rhythm rule sense signposts simple Soapland sometimes sound specific speech stress groups student style subordinate syllables syntactic teacher techniques tence term theme thing thought tion tone topic sentence topic statement transitions usually Virginia Woolf words writer