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GRAMMAR<br />

Rebecca seizing life with her two hands; Rebecca, triumphant, leaning<br />

down from the minstrel's gallery with a smile on her lips.<br />

-DAPHNE Du MAURIER, Rebecca<br />

He was a good mixer, and in three days knew everyone on board.<br />

He ran everything. He managed the sweeps, conducted the auctions,<br />

collected money for prizes at the sports, got up quoit and golf matches,<br />

organized the concert, and arranged the fancy-dress ball. He was<br />

everywhere and always. He was certainly the best-hated man in the<br />

ship.<br />

-W. SoMERSET MAUGHAM, Mr Know-All<br />

<strong>The</strong> external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was<br />

folly <strong>to</strong> grieve, or <strong>to</strong> think. <strong>The</strong> prince had provided all the appliances<br />

of pleasure. <strong>The</strong>re were buffoons, there were improvisa<strong>to</strong>ri, there were<br />

ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there were cards, there was<br />

Beauty, there was wine. All these and security were within. Without<br />

was the "Red Death."<br />

-EDGAR ALLAN PoE, <strong>The</strong> Masque of the Red Death<br />

In poetry, the device of deliberate repetition is common.<br />

"One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize <strong>to</strong>night,<br />

But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light;<br />

Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,<br />

<strong>The</strong>n look for me by moonlight,<br />

Watch for me by moonlight<br />

I'll come <strong>to</strong> thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way."<br />

<strong>The</strong> ice was here, the ice was there,<br />

<strong>The</strong> ice was all around:<br />

It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,<br />

Like noises in a swound!<br />

-ALFRED NoYEs, <strong>The</strong> Highwayman<br />

-SAMUEL TAYLOR CoLERIDGE, <strong>The</strong> Rime of the Ancient Mariner<br />

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