English Composition and Rhetoric: A Manual

abstract action Antithesis arrangement bay color beauty brevity called character circumstances clause comparison composition concrete concrete Extract connection consonants contrast degree Demosthenes described effect emotion English epigram example excitement exposition expression facts give given harmony Hence History Horace Walpole human humor HYPERBOLE Iliad illustration implied impression instances iteration kind knowledge language ludicrous Macaulay meaning melody ment metaphor method metonymy mind mode moral narrative nation nature nuendo objects obverse orator oratory pain paragraph passage pathos Pearl Coast periphrasis person personification phatic Plato pleasure Pleonasm poet poetic poetry political politics of Poland predicate principle prominence proposition reference sense sentence sentiment simile 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 words writer