A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out : with a Complete Analysis of the Voice ... and the Several Figures of Rhetoric : to which are Added Outlines of Composition, Or, Plain Rules for Writing Orations and Speaking Them in Public

J.T. Buckingham, 1814 - 356 pagina's

INTRODUCTION	xi

Observations on some of the principal Faults in the Pro	18

The Liquid Sound of T D S and soft C after the	24

Pronouncing W for V and inversely	30

When you is to be pronounced like ye and my like	38

The indistinct Sound of the Word	44

How to pronounce the Word to when succeeded by you	47

Rhetorical Punctuation	56

Aparithmesis or Enumeration Gradation and Climax	184

Prolepsis	191

Anastrophe	197

Enantiosis	203

Anacoënosis	208

Vision	221

Prosopopæia	227

Instructions for acquiring Low Tones of Voice	234

Rules for Pausing	64

Audible Punctuation	77

Explanation of Plate the First	82

Direct Period with One Conjunction	88

Orthoëpial Figures or Figures of Pronunciation	95

The Exclamation	102

The Contrast	108

The Concluding Series	114

The Echo	120

The Period and the Method of forming a Cadence	128

Of the Cadence of Verse	164

On Blank Verse	171

Catachresis	177

On Composition	243

On the Structure of Sentences	252

On the Harmony of Sentences	263

The general Characters of StyleDiffuse concise c	270

Of the Distribution of Oratory	285

Of external Topics	295

Of the State of a Controversy	304

Of Arguments suited to Demonstrative Discourses	312

Of Arguments suited to Deliberative Discourses	321

Of Arguments suited to Judicial Discourses	328

Of the Character and Address of an Orator	338

Of the Passions	345

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Titel	A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out : with a Complete Analysis of the Voice ... and the Several Figures of Rhetoric : to which are Added Outlines of Composition, Or, Plain Rules ...
Auteur	John Walker
Editie	herdruk
Uitgever	J.T. Buckingham, 1814
Oorspronkelijk uit	Columbia University
Gedigitaliseerd	18 feb 2009
Lengte	356 pagina's

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