To begin with – a riddle: “The beautiful lady” has a spooky foot. What’s more, two of her feet are chopped off. What’s happened? The answer lies in the opening verse of his classic poem, La Belle Dame sans Merci – “the beautiful lady without mercy”. In this poem, Keats presents his narrator stumbling across a knight in the middle of nowhere. The knight seems out of place and out of sorts.
The Semi-Colon in Descriptive Writing
Let’s say your character steps through a door and sees a whole new world. This means you have a setting to describe. It’s an important setting – not one you can just skate over. It would be no good writing something like, “John stepped through the door and saw an amazing garden” … and then just moving on to something else.
Some Proper Stuff about Proper Nouns!
Introduction What is the difference between the noun “car” and the noun “Rolls Royce”? The word “car” refers to objects all of which share common properties or attributes. They all have something in common that enables us to define them as “cars”- four wheels, a vague box-like shape or whatever else goes into giving a … Continue reading Some Proper Stuff about Proper Nouns!
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