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... speech are used by everyone who wishes to express himself adequately ; for graphic presentation is the most ... speech of the Cockney and of the Oriental vigorous and vivid . The use of figures of speech has a twofold value . For a ...
... speech are used by everyone who wishes to express himself adequately ; for graphic presentation is the most ... speech of the Cockney and of the Oriental vigorous and vivid . The use of figures of speech has a twofold value . For a ...
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... speech of courtiers . Consciously or not , Lyly hit upon a fundamental æsthetic principle when he devised a prose style that was distinct from colloquial speech . He actually mentions the Englishman's desire " to hear a finer speech ...
... speech of courtiers . Consciously or not , Lyly hit upon a fundamental æsthetic principle when he devised a prose style that was distinct from colloquial speech . He actually mentions the Englishman's desire " to hear a finer speech ...
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... speech was now firmly established . For with Addison and Steele it was a definite literary form , consciously practised to satisfy a public demand . It was speech at its best , as seldom actually spoken , but as it would be spoken if ...
... speech was now firmly established . For with Addison and Steele it was a definite literary form , consciously practised to satisfy a public demand . It was speech at its best , as seldom actually spoken , but as it would be spoken if ...
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18th century A. A. Milne action æsthetic alliteration audience Bacon ballad beauty Beowulf blank verse characteristics characters Charlotte Brontë classical climax colour comedy contemporary device Dickens drama early effect Elizabethan emotion English literature English prose epic epithet essay essayists example expression feeling fiction figure give Goldsmith human idea imagination interest Jane Austen Julius Cæsar kind language less lines literary live lyric manner matter meaning metaphor method metre Midsummer Night's Dream Milton mind modern mood moon narrative natural never novel novelist passion pattern persons picture play plot poem poet poet's poetic poetry purpose reader realised reveal rhythm Richardson rime romantic scenes sense sentiment Shakespeare Shelley's short story simile simply songs sonnet sound speech stage stanza style subject-matter suggests tale Tamburlaine Tennyson's theme things thought tion to-day tragedy Twelfth Night unity W. B. Yeats W. H. Davies words writing written