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| "... to love so sturdily and Spartan- like as to put to rout all that was not life..." Thoreau |
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| "But,in a larger, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-- we can not hallow-this ground."Lincoln |
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| "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Dickens |
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| "Be with me Beauty, for the fire is dying." Yeates |
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| "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done..." |
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| "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." |
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| "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Or "I came, I saw, I conquered." |
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| "His mouth was beautiful, but deceit lurked in it...., he was young in years, yet old in sin...., I did not like his speech, but I loved him." |
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| "...no one had the guts to raise a riot..." Orwell We know that "guts" means courage, but anyone who is learning English wouldn't know that. |
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| "Often times the veriest serpent wears a shining coat... but the poison of whose fangs will corrupt a young heart..." "Confessions of a Flirt" a wolf in sheep's clothing |
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| Twains comparison of the Mississippi River to a book "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes |
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| "he lives in the dark unfathomed mammoth cave of this world" Thoreau buy or die |
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| "Let the world go forth... that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans-born in this century." Ebony and ivory |
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| "Your examples are not bad" (understatement) downplaying |
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| "Juliet is the sun" Romeo and Juilet |
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| "Buckingham Palace announced Prince William's engagement." "Lend me your ears...." |
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| "In the 1960's protests against the war, they fought for peace." |
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| The lawyer proved reasonable doubt in her rebuttal. |
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| "That's okay; I love it when you borrow things and don't return them." |
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| It roared like an evil spirit. |
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| 50 masts=50 ships 100 head of cattle=100 cows All hands on deck |
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| "They took my wallet and the Fifth Avenue bus.""....Friends, Romans, countrymen,lend me your ears..." |
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| we think of red for anger or passion or blue for calm |
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| a person who is an honor student should be elected class president. |
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| Carol should be class president because she is an honor student |
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| technical diction -(jargon) |
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| Secondary educators specialize in one or two areas of pedagogy. |
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| The object of philanthropy is to convince others that one is not selfish. All politicians lie. |
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| patterns of development (narration, exemplification,etc.) |
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| using fallacies to prove somethin wrong (one example) |
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| being able to combine the different patterns into one essay |
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| "To what world assembly of sovereign states, the United nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support." (Main clause is withheld to the end) |
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| "The child ran, frenzied and ignoring all hazards, as if being chased by demons." (Main clasue is at the beginning.) |
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| In China bicycles are a common form of transportation. |
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| Take your time. Because no one is ready (you) |
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| The class trip, by the way, was very enjoyable. |
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| "But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course- both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by teh spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war." |
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| "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." or Close the door! |
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| compound-complex sentence |
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| Ostriches cannot fly, but their legs are so long and strong that they can outrun any pursuer. |
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