A grammar handbook intended as a supplemental text for lower division Englishcourses at the university and college level, with a focus on composition and creative writing. INDICE: Part I: Quotations; 1: Jane Austen - Parts Of A Sentence: Subject/Predicate; 2: Franz Kafka - Parts Of Speech; 3: Margaret Atwood - Noun, Simple Sentence, Figures Of Speech; 4: James Joyce - Verb: Principle Parts, Tense; 5: Dylan Thomas - Verb-Finite/Verbals, Transitive/Intransitive; 6: Pearl S. Buck - Verb: Mood; 7: French Feminists - Parts of a Sentence: Subject/Object; 8: Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Adjective, Adverb; 9: Andre Gide - Simple Sentence, Phrases; 10: Heraclitus - Compound Sentence, Independent Clause, Parallel Constructions; 11: Oscar Wilde - Compound Sentence, Parataxis, Conjunctions; 12:Virginia Woolf - Compound Sentence Freight Train, Triad; 13: Graham Greene - Complex Sentences/Dependent Clauses; 14: Hannah Arendt - Complex Sentence, Dependent Clauses, Subordinating Conjunctions; 15: Martin Luther - King Jr. Clauses; 16: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Punctuating Clauses, Restrictive And Non Restrictive Clauses; 17: David Suzuki - Compound Complex Sentences, Analogy; 18: Barbara Gowdy - Fragment, Pronouns, Tone; 19: Angela Carter - Interruption,Allusion; 20: A Cornucopia of Voices - Figures Of Speech: Metaphor, Simile; 21: A Plethora Of Voices - Emphatic Device: Repetition; 22: George Elliott Clarke - Emphatic Device: Accumulation; 23: Simone Weil - Emphatic Device: Rhythm;24: The Oxford English Dictionary - Diction; Review; Part II: Excerpts; 25: Don McKay - Clarity; 26: Charles Dickens - Emphatic Devices; 27: Peter Sanger -Diction; 28: Harry Thurston - Description; 29: Dorothy Lessing - Flow; 30: Barak Obama - Parallel Construction, Anaphora; 31: Annie Dillard - Poetic Devices Used in Good Prose; 32: Phil Fontaine - Eloquence, Tense; 33: Thomas Carlyle- Last Word; Glossary; List of Further Reading; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-543173-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 200
- Fecha Publicación: 29/04/2010
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- Idioma: Inglés