Rhetorical Elements in the Eighteenth-century English Novel

actions ancient aposiopesis appear artistic associated attempt audience beauty begins Century chapter character Clarissa classical comedy comic complexity compliments conscious continual contrast conventional course criticism delivery describes devices early effect eighteenth-century eloquence emotional emphasizes employs English entire epic example expression fact familiar Fielding Fielding's figure formal gesture give hand heart hero heroine highly humor Ibid instance invention ironic irony Jonathan Wild Jones Joseph Andrews lady lament language later less letter London Lovelace lover manner matter mean metaphors mock-heroic mode narrator nature never novel observes orator Oratory particular passage passion pathetic rhetoric pattern Perhaps play present prose provides question Quintilian reader rhetoricians Richardson role romantic rhetoric satirical scene seems sentiments serious similar simile Smollett speaks speech Sterne Sterne's style stylistic suggests techniques tion topics traditional Tristram Shandy true usually Wild writing