Style and Statement

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ISBN: 9780195115437

ISBN-10: 0195115430

ISBN-13: 9780195115437

Edition: 1998 (Reprint)

Authors: Edward P. J. Corbett, Robert J. Connors

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Developed from the very popular fourth chapter of the authors' Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student, 4th ed., Style and Statement is a concise introduction to the components of effective style as they were first defined by classical rhetoricians and as they apply to writing today. An essential reference for students and all writers, it incorporates numerous lively exercises that emphasize the contemporary applications of classic styles. The book opens with an extended discussion of diction and continues with an analysis of sentence composition and Professor Corbett's famous numerical style studies, which unite the principles of diction and sentence organization. Its catalogue of…

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List price: $94.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/3/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 9.02" wide x 6.10" long x 0.20" tall
Weight: 0.484



Preface


The Study Of Style


Grammatical Competence


Choice of Diction An Adequate Vocabulary Purity, Propriety, and Precision of Diction


Composition of the Sentence


Study of Style Kind of Diction


Length of Sentences


Kinds of Sentences


Variety of Sentence


Patterns Sentence Euphony Articulation of Sentences


Figures of Speech


Paragraphing A Student Report on a Study of Style


Stylistic Study (Grammatical Types of Sentence)


Stylistic Study (Sentence Openers)


Stylistic Study (Diction


Figures of Speech


The Schemes Schemes of Words


Schemes of Construction


The Tropes Metaphor and Simile Synecdoche


Metonymy Puns Anthimeria Periphrasis Personification or Prosopopoeia


Hyperbole Litotes Rhetorical


Question Irony Onomatopoeia OxymoronConcluding


Remarks on the Figures of SpeechImitation


Testimonies about the Value of Imitation Rollo Walter Brown


"How the French Boy Learns to Write"


Exercises in Imitation Imitating Sentence Patterns Sample


ImitationsReadings Hugh Blair


Critical Examination of the Style of Mr


Addison in No. 411 of "The Spectator"



Inaugural AddressA Paragraph of Virginia Woolf Analyzed for Style


Index