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... Shakespeare's second line , and the first foot ( " High on " ) of Milton's first line are all trochees ( accented syllable followed by unaccented ) . That is , the usual structure of English blank verse is iambic pentameters with ...
... Shakespeare's second line , and the first foot ( " High on " ) of Milton's first line are all trochees ( accented syllable followed by unaccented ) . That is , the usual structure of English blank verse is iambic pentameters with ...
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... Shakespeare's sentence , a pronoun of the common gender is called for , we are obliged to choose between a stilted correctness and an easy natural incorrectness . Faced with the choice , Shakespeare , as one might expect of a dramatist ...
... Shakespeare's sentence , a pronoun of the common gender is called for , we are obliged to choose between a stilted correctness and an easy natural incorrectness . Faced with the choice , Shakespeare , as one might expect of a dramatist ...
Pagina 155
... Shakespeare extracts . In ( a ) , which has in it 113 words , there are only four words - overhead , underneath , vigorous , sinewy —of more than two syllables ; and the first two of these are com- pounds of other words , the last two ...
... Shakespeare extracts . In ( a ) , which has in it 113 words , there are only four words - overhead , underneath , vigorous , sinewy —of more than two syllables ; and the first two of these are com- pounds of other words , the last two ...
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accent adjective adverb Alice Alice in Wonderland Antony beauty Ben Jonson better Brutus Cęsura called Charles Lamb clause comma consonant dear delight doth effective English example expression eyes G. B. SHAW give grammar Greek Hamlet hand hath hear hearers heart honour Iambic Pentameter idea instance Julius Cęsar King Lady language Latin light lines live Look Lord Macaulay matter meaning metaphor metonymy Milton mind never Nominative Absolute notice noun objective Paradise Lost paragraph passage Perhaps periphrasis person phrase play plural poem poet poetry Pope preposition pronoun pronunciation prose question quotation reader reason rhyming rhythm sense sentence Shakespeare silent sing singular sonnet sound speak speaker speech spelling split infinitive style sweet syllable talk tell term thee thing thou thought tongue Transitive Verb TROCHEE usually verb verse voice vowel words writing