Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (226-246) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)
"Although the American poet Robert Frost famously dismissed writing in free verse as analogous to 'playing tennis with the net down,' and critics have occasionally called for a return to metrics, free verse has become the most frequent poetic form in modern English poetry."
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Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Left to the berks, the English language would 'die of impurity, like late Latin'. Left to the wankers, it would die instead of purity, 'like medieval Latin'."
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Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)
"The main reason I recall this shameful teenage epiphany, however, is that in my mission to blast little Kerry-Anne out of the water, I pulled out (literally) all the stops: I used a semicolon."
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Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)
"A re-formed rock band is quite different from a reformed one. Likewise, a long-standing friend is different from a long standing one. A cross-section of the public is quite different from a cross section of the public."
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Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)
"Thus the Misfit lives as neither believer nor unbeliever in the grey world of uncertainty, of desire for truth, and of longing for some transcendent meaning."
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