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... living : words or phrases like these resound pleasantly or ringingly in the listener's ear ; but they too have the effect of diverting attention from the ideas the speaker is discussing ( or ought to be discussing ) , ideas which ...
... living : words or phrases like these resound pleasantly or ringingly in the listener's ear ; but they too have the effect of diverting attention from the ideas the speaker is discussing ( or ought to be discussing ) , ideas which ...
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... living before that , And you are living after , And the memory I started at— My starting moves your laughter ! I crossed a moor with a name of its own And a use in the world no doubt , Yet a hand's - breadth of it shines alone ' Mid the ...
... living before that , And you are living after , And the memory I started at— My starting moves your laughter ! I crossed a moor with a name of its own And a use in the world no doubt , Yet a hand's - breadth of it shines alone ' Mid the ...
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... living all combined to make the shorter sentence desirable and indeed necessary . Since as a rule the millions who formed a popular market for reading matter had had only a few years of schooling , everything they read had to be in ...
... living all combined to make the shorter sentence desirable and indeed necessary . Since as a rule the millions who formed a popular market for reading matter had had only a few years of schooling , everything they read had to be in ...
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Denotation and Connotation | 1 |
Diction | 55 |
Other Determinants of Tone | 130 |
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