Contemporary Essays on Style: Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Criticism

abstract alliteration American analysis appear become begin better called century choice clause common complex composition concerned connection constructions context course criticism effect English essay example experience expression fact feel final follow formal four function give grammar Holden human idea important individual instance interest kind language least less limited linguistic literary literature logical look matter meaning method mind nature never nouns object original paragraph particular passage pattern perhaps personality phrase position possible practice present problem Proposal prose question reader reason reference relation result rhetorical seems sense sentence simple single sort sound speak speaker speech statement structure style stylistic suggest theory things thought tion transformational verb whole words writer York