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... called the serpent's letter . " Ancient critics looked down on it as " more suited to a brute beast than to a rational being . " Tennyson tried to get rid of s's ; he called it " kicking the geese out of the boat . " Robert Graves says ...
... called the serpent's letter . " Ancient critics looked down on it as " more suited to a brute beast than to a rational being . " Tennyson tried to get rid of s's ; he called it " kicking the geese out of the boat . " Robert Graves says ...
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... called chiasmus , from the X - shaped Greek letter chi . A simple example would be : " I like football ; baseball I hate . " Parallelism that contrasts words or ideas ( often by means of “ but ” or a word like it ) is called antithesis ...
... called chiasmus , from the X - shaped Greek letter chi . A simple example would be : " I like football ; baseball I hate . " Parallelism that contrasts words or ideas ( often by means of “ but ” or a word like it ) is called antithesis ...
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... called a " Mil- tonic sonnet . " What is different about it ? H. The ballad stanza is also called " common meter " ( C.M. ) , especially when used in hymns . Why is the following stanza form called " short meter " ( S.M. ) ? I. I Look ...
... called a " Mil- tonic sonnet . " What is different about it ? H. The ballad stanza is also called " common meter " ( C.M. ) , especially when used in hymns . Why is the following stanza form called " short meter " ( S.M. ) ? I. I Look ...
Common terms and phrases
accent alliteration Anthology beauty begins better bird blue body breath called close cold color comes dark dead death deep dreams earth effect emotion English example express eyes face fall feel feet fields flowers four Frost girl give green hair hand head hear heard heart holds human images John keep kind language leaves light lines live look meaning metaphor mind moon mouth move nature never night objects once pass play poem poet poetry rain rhyme rhythm Robert rose seems sense SHAKESPEARE shape sing sometimes song sound speech stand stanza sweet syllables symbol tell thee things thou thought trees turn verse vowel walk wind words writing Yeats young