Description
Book SynopsisStyle and Statement is a brief text on style for use in courses of advanced composition. It is a reprint of a very popular advanced text on rhetoric —- Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Users of this book have consistently praised the chapter on style for its adaptation of classical principles of style to contemporary writing and for its lively exercises that emphasize the practical application of these principles. This brief text will become anessential reference for every writer.
Trade Review"Very handy....sure to please students in advanced composition."--Bonnie Devet, College of Charleston "This well written text not only provides excellent reading selections, it also contains some clever approaches to style in the sections on figures of speech and imitation."--Anne Bliss, University of Colorado at Boulder
Table of ContentsPreface 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 Oxymoron Concluding Remarks on the Figures of Speech Imitation Testimonies about the Value of Imitation Rollo Walter Brown: "How the French Boy Learns to Write" Exercises in Imitation Imitating Sentence Patterns Sample Imitations Readings Hugh Blair: Critical Examination of the Style of Mr. Addison in No. 411 of "The Spectator" John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address A Paragraph of Virginia Woolf Analyzed for Style Index
