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Page 33
... adapted to the special experience of trades , pro- fessions , and social surroundings . Farmers , mechanics ... adaptation ; and this is impossible when he has to adapt to those above himself , the composer can descend , but not ...
... adapted to the special experience of trades , pro- fessions , and social surroundings . Farmers , mechanics ... adaptation ; and this is impossible when he has to adapt to those above himself , the composer can descend , but not ...
Page 34
... adaptation . But aside from the variable factors which limit and define the end according to circumstances , there is an invariable factor to be counted on in all audiences and under all circumstances , and which determines funda ...
... adaptation . But aside from the variable factors which limit and define the end according to circumstances , there is an invariable factor to be counted on in all audiences and under all circumstances , and which determines funda ...
Page 35
... adapted to inform the intellect as an end . Oratory , or persuasive discourse , seeks some end , through action , beyond the knowledge and feeling by which the action is stimulated . With oratory the object is not to bring the mind into ...
... adapted to inform the intellect as an end . Oratory , or persuasive discourse , seeks some end , through action , beyond the knowledge and feeling by which the action is stimulated . With oratory the object is not to bring the mind into ...
Page 36
... adaptation to an end and not that of form . Popularly speaking , an oration is something spoken , and poetry is that which is written in verse . But an oration is still an oration when printed , and a poem is still a poem when changed ...
... adaptation to an end and not that of form . Popularly speaking , an oration is something spoken , and poetry is that which is written in verse . But an oration is still an oration when printed , and a poem is still a poem when changed ...
Page 38
... adapted to each of the three ends , let it be so ; for this is its unique and fundamental fact , the fact that regulates all further procedure in its study . Such a discovery might be a criticism on the discourse , but not a reflection ...
... adapted to each of the three ends , let it be so ; for this is its unique and fundamental fact , the fact that regulates all further procedure in its study . Such a discovery might be a criticism on the discourse , but not a reflection ...
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adaptation Allegory Amphibrach Anapaest apple argument Asyndeton attention attri attributes basis beauty called cause and effect clear common comparison and contrast composer conception condition connection conscious copula definite desire distinct effort Elegance elements emotions end sought energy essential euphony exposition expression fact feeling figure force given gives growing on trees guage hearer Hence idea ideal imagination impression individual induction inferred interpretation judgment language form law of unity liquid consonants literal literary logical means ment Metaphor Metonymy mind addressed move movement narration nature object oration oratory organic organic unity periodic sentence phases Pleonasm poem poetry Polysyndeton presented preter principle produced prose purpose reader reading relation requires resemblance rhetoric secured selection sense sentence Sir Launfal sound speaker style syllable syllogism Synecdoche Tautology tences theme things thought tion Trochee truth unified unit utterance vincing power whole words writer