FRESHMAN COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, GRAMMAR II

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INTRO. TO LITERARY RESEARCH & WRITING

INSTRUCTOR: James Maxfield

Take a general statement from your descriptive essay and expand it with specific narrative and descriptive sensory-loaded details into an enriched paragraph.

Example (from Erasmus): "He lost everything through excess."

Whatever he had come by inheritance from father or mother, whatever had come by death of other relatives, whatever had been added from his wife’s dowry, which was not at all mean, whatever had accrued from bequests (and considerable had accrued), whatever he had received from the liberality of his prince, whatever private property he had procured, all money, military equipment, clothes, estates, fields, together with farms and herds, in short, everything, whether movable or real estate, and finally even his immediate household property, in a short time he so consumed, wasted, and devoured in foulest passion for harlots, in daily banquets, in sumptuous entertainments, nightly drinking bouts, low taverns, delicacies, perfumes, dice, and gaming that what remained to him would not equal a farthing." (Erasmus: On Copia of Words and Ideas)

Note: You must write a detailed expansion of your sentence that is at least 1/3 of a page double-spaced. If you cannot, then you need to do two or three sentences and cover about ½ page in all.

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