Apostrophe

near him, the further, in fact, did she draw away from him. As soon as she could do so without an appearance of too great rudeness, she rose and left him there alone. Before she reached the house, Gouvernail had lighted a fresh cigar and ended his apostrophe to the night. Mrs. Baroda was greatly tempted that night to tell her husband—who was also her friend—of this folly that had seized her. But she did not yield to the temptation. Besides being a respectable woman she was a very sensible one;…

“I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don 't respect.” - Sandra Cisneros (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sandra_cisneros.html) Sandra Cisneros, famous author of works such as The House on Mango Street (1989), was born in Chicago in 1954, to a Mexican father and Chicana (Mexican-American) mother (Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature, “Sandra Cisneros”).…

One of my quirkiest traits―and a consistent topic of laughter amongst my friends―is my ever-present and never-fading habit of texting with perfect grammar. Semicolons, commas, and colons all make an appearance in my texting, a side effect of wanting to be a book editor when I grow up. Some might argue that because I use texting as a form of communication, my writing skills have regressed. Others argue that texting has actually benefitted my formal writing skills. In Michaela Cullington’s article…

The second and more complex grammatical reading of the title “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” eschews the genitive possessivity of the apostrophe – i.e. the crime being possessed by Savile – in favor of the grammar that sees Savile himself becoming the crime and/or being possessed by it. In other words, instead of viewing this eponymous crime as being something effectuated by Savile, this interpretation has Savile the man assume the role of the crime itself. This conceptualization does, in the end,…

spiritual development so that he sees nature as a source to modify man’s behavior. Correspondingly, in the last stanza, Wordsworth acts as a guide for his sister Dorothy and teaches her to overcome the vexation of being mature. At the same time, the apostrophe “My dear, dear Friend” (116) could be understood as the address to readers, the poet believes the harmony between man and nature can ease human spirit to find further meaning of life and lead life from” joy to joy” (125) in a way that…

At the start of the English 1A semester there a couple of things that I seemed to struggle with. First was I hadn’t written much of anything at all since high school had ended for me nearly four years ago, though I do try to keep a personal journal and loved writing poetry growing up. Between work, a dog, maintaining social activities and the daily hassles of life, writing quickly became an old past time. So, when sitting in class on my first day and being told to freewrite about anything, I…

they do not even realize when they are using it. Most of the teachers also complain about the punctuation. They believe that students tend not to take the stress on punctuation while texting, so students tend not to use punctuations like “commas, apostrophes, and even capital letters to begin sentences” (Cullington 363). Some teachers started to take points off, if students used any abbreviations in their paper (Cullington 363). By doing this, students can learn to use appropriate words in the…

is almost not difference between a parenthetical marked with parentheses, commas (as long as there are no intervening commas), and one marked with an em dash (or en dash, but Bishop seems to avoid them). These, combined with her profuse use of apostrophes, gives her a sort of meandering feel, sometimes side tracking for entire stanzas (Stanza 5, line 2 to end stanza 6, and stanza 7 to mid-way through stanza 8, line 1). Both parentheticals in this poem are a just sentences wrapped in parentheses,…

The world of arts are based on influencing people. Whether it is intentional or not, the way the various arts emotionally move people speaks volumes. John Keats, who lived from 1795-1821, was named one of the greatest Romantic poets of his time by many scholars. Although, he died at a considerably young age, 25 years old, he published fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes(PoetryFoundation.org). Keats and his works were criticized by others by considering him the “Cockneys School”, which were…

Authors have utilized literary devices in their works from the beginning of time. However, with the advent of the Neoclassical age in 1600’s Britain, the societal virtues of balance, harmony, order, and reason began to receive much more emphasis. The sentiment permeated every area of life, especially concerning literature. Mary Leapor, an English poet and maid working in the 1700’s, exemplifies this new focus and threads many of these elements in her poetry to elevate it to the levels of the…