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... emotional response , and often directly responsible for it , are the images that many words inspire in our minds ... emotional stops in our minds ; and emotion clouds any reasonable response we might be able to make to the idea . Therein ...
... emotional response , and often directly responsible for it , are the images that many words inspire in our minds ... emotional stops in our minds ; and emotion clouds any reasonable response we might be able to make to the idea . Therein ...
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... emotional associations of the " loaded " words in these sentences have the planned effect of spilling over onto , and hiding , the real points at issue , which demand — but thus fail to receive - fair , analyt- ical , objective judgment ...
... emotional associations of the " loaded " words in these sentences have the planned effect of spilling over onto , and hiding , the real points at issue , which demand — but thus fail to receive - fair , analyt- ical , objective judgment ...
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... emotion , merely because it has something to do with babyhood or the first stirrings of pure young love , will not discriminate between the sentimental and the genuinely emotional . To him it is the subject that counts , not the ...
... emotion , merely because it has something to do with babyhood or the first stirrings of pure young love , will not discriminate between the sentimental and the genuinely emotional . To him it is the subject that counts , not the ...
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Denotation and Connotation | 1 |
Diction | 55 |
Other Determinants of Tone | 130 |
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