A Text-book on Rhetoric (1882) |
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... reader or listener . Kellogg defined it as an expression whose parts are arranged in the order of their strength , the weakest standing first . . . . the parts of the climax grow in importance , the most forcible standing last , and ...
... reader or listener . Kellogg defined it as an expression whose parts are arranged in the order of their strength , the weakest standing first . . . . the parts of the climax grow in importance , the most forcible standing last , and ...
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... reader or hearer to speak not simply so that he can be understood but so that he cannot fail of being understood . One has no more right to take another's time and energy in a hunt for the meaning than he has to take his fruit or his ...
... reader or hearer to speak not simply so that he can be understood but so that he cannot fail of being understood . One has no more right to take another's time and energy in a hunt for the meaning than he has to take his fruit or his ...
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... reader or hearer sees the point of re- semblance , the words like , as , just as , and so may be omitted , and the word or words which denote one of the things may be brought over and applied to the other . This assumption of likeness ...
... reader or hearer sees the point of re- semblance , the words like , as , just as , and so may be omitted , and the word or words which denote one of the things may be brought over and applied to the other . This assumption of likeness ...
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