Style and Statement / Edition 1

by Edward P. J. Corbett, Robert J. Connors

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195115437
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/03/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	9.22(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Ohio State University

University of New Hampshire

Table of Contents

PrefaceTHE STUDY OF STYLEGrammatical CompetenceChoice of DictionAn Adequate VocabularyPurity, Propriety, and Precision of DictionComposition of the SentenceStudy of StyleKind of DictionLength of SentencesKinds of SentencesVariety of Sentence PatternsSentence EuphonyArticulation of SentencesFigures of SpeechParagraphingA Student Report on a Study of StyleStylistic Study (Grammatical Types of Sentence)Stylistic Study (Sentence Openers)Stylistic Study (Diction)Figures of SpeechThe SchemesSchemes of WordsSchemes of ConstructionThe TropesMetaphor and SimileSynecdocheMetonymyPunsAnthimeriaPeriphrasisPersonification or ProsopopoeiaHyperboleLitotesRhetorical QuestionIronyOnomatopoeiaOxymoronConcluding Remarks on the Figures of SpeechImitationTestimonies about the Value of ImitationRollo Walter Brown: "How the French Boy Learns to Write"Exercises in ImitationImitating Sentence PatternsSample ImitationsReadingsHugh Blair: Critical Examination of the Style of Mr. Addison in No. 411 of "The Spectator"John F. Kennedy: Inaugural AddressA Paragraph of Virginia Woolf Analyzed for StyleIndex