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... Yorker , May 28 , 1955 ; on “ our national predilection for ponderous phraseology " ) . Malcolm Cowley , " Sociological Habit Patterns in Linguistic Transmogri- fication , " The Reporter , September 20 , 1956 ( on " the verbal folkways ...
... Yorker , May 28 , 1955 ; on “ our national predilection for ponderous phraseology " ) . Malcolm Cowley , " Sociological Habit Patterns in Linguistic Transmogri- fication , " The Reporter , September 20 , 1956 ( on " the verbal folkways ...
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... Yorker , Nov. 16 , 1963. Reprinted with the permission of the author and The New Yorker . First , there are the figures which suggest thick liquid 134 Other Determinants of Tone.
... Yorker , Nov. 16 , 1963. Reprinted with the permission of the author and The New Yorker . First , there are the figures which suggest thick liquid 134 Other Determinants of Tone.
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... Yorker , May 5 , 1955. ( The New Yorker's comment : " Exhale . " ) ( 3 ) Walter Pater , " Style " ( Apprecia- tions ) . ( 4 ) Matthew Arnold , Preface to Poems ( 1853 ) . 4.10 : The first version is from " Maryland Haymaking , " South ...
... Yorker , May 5 , 1955. ( The New Yorker's comment : " Exhale . " ) ( 3 ) Walter Pater , " Style " ( Apprecia- tions ) . ( 4 ) Matthew Arnold , Preface to Poems ( 1853 ) . 4.10 : The first version is from " Maryland Haymaking , " South ...
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Denotation and Connotation | 1 |
Diction | 55 |
Other Determinants of Tone | 130 |
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