Authors
The Screwtape Letters
C.S. Lewis
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
Macbeth
Follows letter or number divisions in key-word outlines
period (pg. 297)
And
coordinating (pg. 54)
The hero in a story that typically fights an antagonist
protagonist (pg. 507)
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
Pride and Prejudice
Separates coordinating adjectives
comma (pg. 301)
If, although, because
subordinating (pg. 55)
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
blank verse (pg. 504)
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe (pg. 138)
“We want him to be in the maximum uncertainty, so that his mind will be filled with contradictory pictures of the future, every one of which arouses hope or fear.”
The Screwtape Letters (pg. 18)
Separates several word groups or phrases that each contain commas
semicolon (pg. 315)
Or, but
coordinating (pg. 54)
The retelling of a work in one’s own words
paraphrase (pg. 507)
“The Canterbury Tales”
Geoffrey Chaucer (pg. 39)
“They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.”
“Paradise Lost” (pg. 123)
Separates a book’s title from its subtitle
colon (pg. 316)
When, while, where
subordinating (pg. 55)
The use of words to convey the opposite of the literal meaning
irony (pg. 506)
“Sir Gawain and the Green Night”
The Pearl Poet (pg. 26)
“Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die.”
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (pg. 275)
Separates two closely related independent clauses WITHOUT using a coordinating conjunction
semicolon (pg. 315)
Either/or, both/and
correlative (pg. 55)
A play that ends unhappily
tragedy (pg. 508)