English Lessons for English People

accented syllable alliteration alliterative ambiguity amphibrachic anapæstic argument avoided blank verse Cæsar cæsura called character common conversation couplet COWPER didactic composition dissyllabic metre double rhyme dramatic Dryden early English poetry effect elevated Elizabethan emphatic English poetry epic epithets example excess express extra syllable Faerie Queene fault foot forcible four accents give graceful style Greek Grimm's Law Hence iamb iambic illustrate imaginative incidents instance introduced Julius Cæsar kind language Latin less license meaning Metaphor Metrical Accent Milton monosyllable narration natural o'er oratory Paradise Lost passion pause perhaps periphrasis Personal Metaphor Personification picturesqueness pleasure plough poem poetic diction poets Pope predicate pronounced prose rhyming couplet rhythm Richard Richard II rule sense sentence Shakspeare simile slang slurring sometimes sound speak speaker speech Tennyson thing thou thought three accents three-accent tion trisyllabic metre trochaic trochee unaccented syllables unemphatic accent verb vowel words writing