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... Emphasis . - For your first effort in ex- pressing thought effectively in words , you are to try the story told above . Before you start to write this story , let us ask three questions about it . - First . Is everything else ...
... Emphasis . - For your first effort in ex- pressing thought effectively in words , you are to try the story told above . Before you start to write this story , let us ask three questions about it . - First . Is everything else ...
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... emphasis . You will no doubt agree that both Lincoln and Miss Tarbell meet these tests in this case . Lincoln is considered one of the world's best story - tellers . And with her stories of men and events Miss Tarbell has caught the ear ...
... emphasis . You will no doubt agree that both Lincoln and Miss Tarbell meet these tests in this case . Lincoln is considered one of the world's best story - tellers . And with her stories of men and events Miss Tarbell has caught the ear ...
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... Emphasis . — Out of the papers submitted , the teacher , without naming the writers , will read several papers or designate one or more pupils to read them . The class are to listen carefully for the following points , and express their ...
... Emphasis . — Out of the papers submitted , the teacher , without naming the writers , will read several papers or designate one or more pupils to read them . The class are to listen carefully for the following points , and express their ...
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... emphasis : 1. Does what I say or write go straight to the mark ? 2. Do I say the right thing at the right time ? 3. Do I lay most stress on the most important things ? EXERCISES BASED ON PICTURES - Into the Woods . Who could resist the ...
... emphasis : 1. Does what I say or write go straight to the mark ? 2. Do I say the right thing at the right time ? 3. Do I lay most stress on the most important things ? EXERCISES BASED ON PICTURES - Into the Woods . Who could resist the ...
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... emphasis by position , emphasis by pro- portion , and emphasis by repetition . When we emphasize by position , we call attention to the thought by an unusual order of words . A good example of this is shown where the lame man at the ...
... emphasis by position , emphasis by pro- portion , and emphasis by repetition . When we emphasize by position , we call attention to the thought by an unusual order of words . A good example of this is shown where the lame man at the ...
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adjective adjective element adverbs amphibrach Arlo Bates arrange asking BASED ON PICTURES beauty Beowulf business letter called chapter clause comma Describe editorial committee Effective English emphasis English class English Syllabus example EXERCISES BASED exposition expression fifty words gerund girl give hundred words important instructor in English interest look Lorna Doone meaning mind modified Monroe Doctrine newspaper noun number of words object orally outline Pageant pageantry paper paragraph participle person phrase play plural poetry predicate Prepare preposition pronoun proper punctuation pupils Refer reindeer relative pronoun reply Robert Burns scene selection sentence Silas Marner singular speak speaker speech spondee student style suggested syllables talk teacher Tell the story tense thing thought three hundred words tion topic train transitive verb Ulysses unity verb write written
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Page 351 - When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
Page 392 - I gazed — and gazed — but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought : For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude ; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
Page 336 - I went up to a rising ground to look farther. I went up the shore and down the shore ; but it was all one, I could see no other impression but that one. I went to it again to see if there were any more, and to observe if it might not be my fancy ; but there was no room for that, for there was exactly the very print of a foot, toes, heel, and every part of a foot ; how it came thither I knew not, nor could in the least imagine.
Page 372 - ... that sensibility of principle that chastity of...
Page 334 - And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead.
Page 423 - THE night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Page 408 - BLANC, The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again...
Page 339 - The Pilgrim's Progress, In The Similitude Of A Dream AS I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a Dream.
Page 418 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Page 100 - I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest. She will devote herself to showing that she knows how to make honorable and fruitful use of the territory she has, and she must regard it as one of the duties of friendship to see that from no quarter are material interests made superior to human liberty and national opportunity.