Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... RHETORICAL PERSONIFICATION , Previous literature . - Personification treated as a species of meta- phor by the ancient rhetoricians . - Homer's use of personifying metaphors . - Ps . - Longinos on bold images . - Concrete objects in ...
... RHETORICAL PERSONIFICATION , Previous literature . - Personification treated as a species of meta- phor by the ancient rhetoricians . - Homer's use of personifying metaphors . - Ps . - Longinos on bold images . - Concrete objects in ...
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... rhetorical qualities of Ciceronian style . Method of Procedure . No special examination has hitherto been made of the Greek use of abstract subjects , although a collection of examples appears to show that the usage of many Greek ...
... rhetorical qualities of Ciceronian style . Method of Procedure . No special examination has hitherto been made of the Greek use of abstract subjects , although a collection of examples appears to show that the usage of many Greek ...
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... rhetorical use . They belong properly to imaginative or impassioned language , and from the nature of the case there is little restriction upon the verb employed . The examples of abstract subjects which remain after these deductions ...
... rhetorical use . They belong properly to imaginative or impassioned language , and from the nature of the case there is little restriction upon the verb employed . The examples of abstract subjects which remain after these deductions ...
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... rhetorical warmth remains , which has largely faded out in English . This can best be seen from a statistical table , giving the whole use of non - personal subjects in the Orators , Herodotos and Thukydides . Sophokles ( Oid . T ...
... rhetorical warmth remains , which has largely faded out in English . This can best be seen from a statistical table , giving the whole use of non - personal subjects in the Orators , Herodotos and Thukydides . Sophokles ( Oid . T ...
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... rhetorical culture.2 On the other hand , the place of Antiphon and Thukydides at the head of the column represents the grave and elaborate style which admits bold imagery and poetic ornament . Somewhat different is the meaning of the ...
... rhetorical culture.2 On the other hand , the place of Antiphon and Thukydides at the head of the column represents the grave and elaborate style which admits bold imagery and poetic ornament . Somewhat different is the meaning of the ...
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