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Scott's Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field, in Six Cantos
Scott's Marmion A Tale of Flodden Field in Six Cantos Author:Walter Scott General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: Macmillan Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy th... more »e General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: INSTANCES OF FIGURES OF SPEECH, Etc. (The following lists of instances do not profess to be exhaustive. Spaces are left for students to add other examples that they may discover in the course of their reading.) Abstract for concrete, 2. xxxin. 7; 8. Int. 48, 183 ; 5. x. 12. Adjectives used as adverts, 1. Int. 36, 69, 226 ; 1. x. 2 ; xv. 6; xxxi. 18; 5. xvi. 5 ; 6. i. 13 ; xvi. 9 ; xix. 4, Anachronism (deviation from historical accuracy with regard to time), 2. xx1x. 5 ; 3. xxii. 22 ; xx11i. 20 ; xxiv. 18 ; 4. vii. 30; 6. xv. 20. Anacoluthou (change of construction), 1. v. 20; xv. 22; 2. Int. 156; 2. vii. 2 ; xix. 23 ; 4. Int. 53 ; 5. vi. 35 ; 6. v11i. 9. Apostrophe (changing the course of a speech, and making a short address to a person different from those to whom the speech is generally directed, or even to an inanimate object), 1. Int. 68; 196; 291; 2. Int. 73; 2. vi1i. 21; 3. xi1i. 2; 5. xxvi. 18; xxvn. 10 ; 6. vin. 18; xix. 23, 25; xx. 2, 12, 13; xxx. 1. Archaic forms, 1. Int. 148 ; 3. i. 16 ; xiv. 11 ; xxxi. 8 ; 4. Int. 172 ; 4. xxi. n ; 5. xxvn. 24. Chiasmus (reversal of order previously observed), Int. 1. 61, 62 ; 6. xi. 29. Climax (rising gradually from weaker to stronger words), 5. xvi. 22-28 ; 6. xxx11i. 18. Colour painting, 1. Int. 2; 13 ; 15 ; 18 ; 21 ; 1. 1. 7 ; vi. 9; 12513; 1S; vi1i. 10; 14; 2. Int. 17; 74; 152; 154; 210; 242; 246; 248; 262; 2, i. 17 ; vni. 18 ; 1x. 13; 3. Int. 133; 136 ; 145 ; 151 ; 167 ; 171...« less