The Practical Elements of Rhetoric: With Illustrative Examples 1887 |
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... reader or listener has at each moment but a limited amount of mental power available . To recognize and interpret ... reader's interpreting power . This may be secured , according to occasion , in two ways . First , by giving the reader ...
... reader or listener has at each moment but a limited amount of mental power available . To recognize and interpret ... reader's interpreting power . This may be secured , according to occasion , in two ways . First , by giving the reader ...
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With Illustrative Examples 1887 John Franklin Genung. 2. Economy of the reader's sensibilities . This is secured partly by force and partly by beauty of style . First , when an emotion is once roused in the reader , economy requires that ...
With Illustrative Examples 1887 John Franklin Genung. 2. Economy of the reader's sensibilities . This is secured partly by force and partly by beauty of style . First , when an emotion is once roused in the reader , economy requires that ...
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... readers , doubtless , for whom it is sufficient to have their ears tickled with ( a " ) fine rhetoric ; but the tickling makes a serious reader impatient : ... But a disinterested reader , whose ob ject is not ( ' ) to hear Puritanism ...
... readers , doubtless , for whom it is sufficient to have their ears tickled with ( a " ) fine rhetoric ; but the tickling makes a serious reader impatient : ... But a disinterested reader , whose ob ject is not ( ' ) to hear Puritanism ...
Contents
Definition of Rhetoric | 1 |
Style in General | 13 |
Diction | 27 |
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