A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes

If these characters do not display properlyin particular, if the diacritic does not appear directly above the letteror if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that the browsers character set or file encoding is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change your browsers default font. The text is based on scans of two different physical copies of the same edition; see endnotes for one variant reading. Typographical errors are marked with mouse-hover popups. All pilcrows in the body text were added by the transcriber (see endnotes). The book was originally (1550) printed together with Erasmuss The Education of Children. The introduction (1961) mentions Erasmus briefly; the Index refers only to Sherrys Treatise. Since the two texts have no connection except that Sherry is assumed to be the translator of the Erasmus essay, they have been made into separate e-texts. Richard Sherrys A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes (1550), afamiliar work of the Renaissance, is primarily thought of as a sixteenth-century English textbook on the figures. Yet it is also a mirror of one variation of rhetoric which came to be called the rhetoric of style. As a representative of this stylistic school, it offers little that is new to the third part of classical rhetoric. Instead, it carries forward the medieval concept that ornateness in communication is desirable; it suggests that figures are tools for achieving this ornateness; it supplies examples of ornateness to be imitated in writing and speaking; it supports knowing the figures in order to understand both secular and religious writings; it proposes that clarity is found in the figures. In short, the work assisted Englishmen to understand eloquence as well as to createit. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 28447
Author: Sherry, Richard
Release Date: Mar 30, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English