...he turned his head to the glass. There he saw a pale ghost-like face scowling back at him beneath the brim of the a pale ghost-like hat. His grandfather, looking quickly too, saw a different ghost, pale but grinning, under a black hat.
O'Connor (Choose One of Three) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)
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A cloud, the exact same color of the boy's hat and shaped like a turnip, had descende over the sun, and another, worse looking, crouched behind the car.
O'Connor, ''The Life You Save May Be Your Own'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)
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He swung both his whole and his short arm up slowly so that they indicated an expanse of sky and his figure formed a crooked cross.
O'Connor, ''The Life You Save May Be Your Own'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)
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Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)
The fact that these people are sometimes editors of national newspapers and Oxford intellectuals is just an indication of how low our society's intellectual aspirations have sunk.
Also Matt put a flyer for recertification, I would how much he would
charge for the group. Did the board pay for it before or did the guard each
pay for it? Maybe we could schedule it for May. I think John might get it
with his WSI calls and Katie is taking a first aid so she probably won't
need it either. Could you get there input on group recertification too?
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Free verse, alos called open form verse, is distinguished from the traditional versification in that its rhythms are not organized into the regularity of meter; most free verse also lacks rhyme.
Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (226-246) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)
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