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FRESHMAN COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, GRAMMAR II

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INTRO. TO LITERARY RESEARCH & WRITING

INSTRUCTOR: James Maxfield

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English 1010—James Maxfield, Instructor

(Example for Exercise #14)

Experiments in Variation, Amplification, and Embellishment (from Erasmus)

Use this tool to create variations and options for improving your sentences. Create as many synonymous sentences as you can by using any rhetorical devices, figures, or tropes that you can.

Your	letter	has delighted	me	very much
Sarah’s Beauty’s My love’s My queen’s My goddess’s	narrative epistle writing written sheet what you have written to me pen words paragraphs essay papered discourse	has (have) pleased has refreshed has exhilarated has brought pleasure to has been such joy to has imbued with joy has honeyed has been not unpleasant to has been not disagreeable to	my eyes my heart my mind us them	greatly mightily exceedingly wonderfully not indifferently not a little more than a little not commonly too incredibly to say too, too much that I cannot express in words profoundly beyond measure more than words express immeasurably extraordinarily
His awkward	flying machine	was created	quietly	in a secret	workshop
clumsy crude, imbalance difficult to handle	winged device airplane lighter than air contraption soaring bird	was designed was fabricated was assembled was constructed was manufactured	on the sly surreptitiously stealthily unobtrusively inaudibly	in a hidden in a less than obvious in a clandestine private; confidential; undisclosed; concealed	garage room basement room laboratory establishment factory; plant

FRESHMAN COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, GRAMMAR II

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INTRO. TO LITERARY RESEARCH & WRITING

INSTRUCTOR: James Maxfield

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Copyright © 2005 Cuyahoga Community College
Last modified: 04/30/06