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| "You shall judge for yourself, my dear colonel,' replied Dr. Heidegger. 'And all of you my respected friends... For my own part, having had much trouble in growing old, i am in no hurry to grow young again" |
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| "Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead" |
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| "There i left that child in the wilderness, and must commit it, and myself also in this wilderness condition, to him who is above all." |
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| "it pleased god before they came half seas over, to smite this youth man with a grievous desease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrwon overboard." |
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| "There are times that try men's souls" |
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| "Tom lost his patience and his piety. 'The devil take me,' said he,' if i have made a farthing! just then there were three lound knocks at the street door... tom youre come for said the black fellow gruffly |
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| Natural men have deserved the fiery pit and are already sentenced to it and god is dreadfully provoked |
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| i saw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me and gongratulated myself upon the timely accident by which i had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more |
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| I should have, i hoped the encouraging pleasure of seeing on my pages the progress i made in virtue, by clearing successively my lines of their spots, till in the end, by a number of courses, i should be happy in viewing a clean book |
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| is it not enough hat we are torn form our country and friends to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice |
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| Ah distinctly i remember i was in bleak december and each seperate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor eagerly i wished the morrow vainly i had sought to borrow from my books surcease of sorrow sorrow for the lost lenore |
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| I know not what course others may take but give me liberty or give me death |
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| Approch thy grave like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams |
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| We hold these truths to be ... etc |
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| the repetition of consonant sounds within words |
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| rhyme that occcurs at the end of lines of poetry |
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| a reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work with which the author believes the reader will be familiar with |
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| words or phrases that describe on thing in terms of somting else and that are not meant to be taken literaly |
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| an extended point by point comparison of two things that have certain similaries |
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| a fourteen line poem in usually written in iambic pentameter, that contains an octave, which presents a problem or question, and a sestet, which responds to the probelm or question |
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| italian/petrarchan sonnet |
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| a line of poetry that contains five feet with one unstressed and one stressed syllable in each foot |
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| a story or poem in which characters, setting and events stand for other people or events or for abstaract ideas or qualities |
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| the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase |
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| pause or break within a line of poetry |
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| a unit for measuring the meter or rhythm of poetry |
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| the pattern of end rhyme within a poem |
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| figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared without exactly stating the two things in the comparision |
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| rhyme that occurs within lines |
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| a brief story that illustrates a point |
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| the appearance of two words which, because of their similar spellings, look alike but when pronounced to the sould alike |
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| the repetition of begining consonant sounds |
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| the overall emotion created by a work of literature |
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| a type of writing that ridicules the short-comings of people or institution in an attempt to bring about a change |
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| the use of a word sounds imitates or suggests its meaning |
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| the attiude a writer takes toward the subject of a work |
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| a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, both of which are stressed used to provide emphasis or a break in the regular rhythm |
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| Passing stories and legends down from generation to generation |
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| the technigue by which a writer expresses ideals of equal importance in phrases or sentences that are worded in a similar ways |
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| the analysis of a poem to determine its meter or rhythm |
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| The story's main idea or message that the author wishes to share with the reader |
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| the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
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| words that come close but dont actually ryme |
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