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 figures of speech is exceptionally comprehensive and includes definitions of the classic tropes. A practical application of imitation as a means of developing style introduces the final section of the text, which consists of the analysis of selected short readings ranging from an eighteenth-century work by Hugh Blair to John F. Kennedy's inaugural address.
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"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
"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
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Edward P. J. Corbett is at Ohio State University (Emeritus). Robert J. Connors is at University of New Hampshire.
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Style has been variously defined as the distinctive or characteristic way in which someone (1) dresses, (2) acts, (3) speaks or writes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
uncommon fervor, sentence openers, successive clauses, grammatical types, model sentence, adverb clause, modern prose Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Inaugural Address, Virginia Woolf, New York, President Kennedy, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Clark Kerr, College English, Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Matthew Arnold, Temple Bar, United States, American English, Charles Scribner's Sons, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Harvard University Press, Jonathan Swift, Winston Churchill, George Campbell, James Dickey, Oxford University Press, Rainy Mountain, Somerset Maugham New!
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Style has been variously defined as the distinctive or characteristic way in which someone (1) dresses, (2) acts, (3) speaks or writes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
uncommon fervor, sentence openers, successive clauses, grammatical types, model sentence, adverb clause, modern prose Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Inaugural Address, Virginia Woolf, New York, President Kennedy, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Clark Kerr, College English, Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Matthew Arnold, Temple Bar, United States, American English, Charles Scribner's Sons, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Harvard University Press, Jonathan Swift, Winston Churchill, George Campbell, James Dickey, Oxford University Press, Rainy Mountain, Somerset Maugham New!
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- Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag on page 49, and page 101
- Burmese Days: A Novel by George Orwell on page 108, and page 110
- The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems (Signet Classic Poetry Series) by Alexander Pope on page 63, and page 64
- Oxford Fowler's Modern English Usage Dictionary by H. W. Fowler on page 10, and page 11
- Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe on page 67, and page 69
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- Keys to Great Writing by Stephen Wilbers on 4 pages
- Letters to a New Teacher: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Year Ahead by Jim Burke on page 77
- Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student by Edward P. J. Corbett in Back Matter
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