Introduction to Theme-Writing
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ISBN13: 9780217853514
Paperback|9780217853514
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. DESCRIPTION. 1. The Uses of Description. ? The necessity for Description occurs, as a rule, under three kinds of circumstances: first and most commonly, in what may be called practical matters, when an engineer, for example, or an historian, finds it advisable to impart information in regard to the visible aspects of persons or objects; secondly, when novelists and poets perform a similar office in regard to the creations of their imaginations; thirdly, when in the course of daily communication we find it convenient to give an account of the impression made upon us by some person or object which we have seen. The second situation, that of the novelist, will probably rarely or never enter the personal experience of most of us, though of course any one of us is continually reading and judging imaginary descriptions made by other men; the first we may all of us at one time or another be placed in; the third is as common as can well be, and plays a large part in ordinary conversation. 2. The Natural Method: the Photograph. ? The easiest wayto reproduce upon another's mind the impression made upon your own by a scene, is to put before his eyes a picture of it. Obviously it is only by suchmeans that the one to whom you are addressing yourself can get impressions of at all the same kind as those which were made upon your retina. In a recent magazine, for instance, there was an article on renaissance gardens in Italy. The text was dull and technical, and in general failed to make any vivid impression on the mind. The accompanying illustrations, however, were such perfect representations of the gardens in question that after some study of them one could scarcely resist feeling that he had seen the gardens themselves. In the same way architects and engineers, in s...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217853514 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021785351X |
| Weight | 0.30 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.20 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 82 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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