From two hundred observatories in Europe and America,
the glorious artillery of science nightly assaults the skies.
4. The lamp is burning.
5. Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's
ingratitude.
6. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff.
7. Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the machinery of
sensibility; one is wind power, the other water power.
8. When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer,
strike your fill.
9. Save the ermine from pollution.
10. There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood,
leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their lives is bound in
shallows and in miseries.
Turn each of the above sentences into plain language. Key: (the
numbers in parantheses indicate the figure of speech in the sentences as
numbered above). 1. (4); 2. (7); 3. (2); 4. (7); 5. (5); 6. (1);
7. (2 and 6); 8. (2 and 6); 9. (7); 10. (2).
CHAPTER III.
STYLE.
There have been many definitions of style; but the disputes of the
rhetoricians do not concern us. _Style,_ as the word is commonly
understood, is the choice and arrangement of words in sentences and of
sentences in paragraphs as that arrangement is effective in expressing
our meaning and convincing our readers or hearers.
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