Assignment 13 – Sense and Nonsense

  Exercises   Note: for “morkle” and “frannis” in the following exercises, substitute two “nonsense” words of your own devising. Use a different pair for each part of the assignment, if you like. 1. The following phrase in...

Assignment 11 – Diction and Dictionaries

  Exercises: 1. Look up one of the following words (or some other word that interests you) in The Oxford English Dictionary: Depressionfeminineliberalimmoralitysilly Using the historical evidence contained in the entries for that word, and, if you like, your own...

Assignment 9 – Figurative Language

  Exercises: 1. Write two paragraphs, developing in each of them a figurative presentation of some “moral or intellectual fact.” In the first one, personify the abstraction. In the second, instead of personifying, embody the abstraction in a place, a...