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Lit Lit 2

Moby Dick

By Harper Lewis Published 4 months ago Updated 4 months ago 1 min read
Lit Lit 2
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This one is noun heavy, because it's early American New England, whose authors were noun-specific and precise. We'll focus on verbs with some southern lit a bit later--to each, its strengths. Let's rewrite the opening paragraph of Moby Dick.

Here's how it works:

I give you a list of numbered parts of speech. In the comments, you post your list, I plug it in and post it next week when we're all biting our knuckles again.

  1. NAME
  2. NOUN
  3. VERB
  4. ADJECTIVE
  5. GERUND
  6. ADJECTIVE
  7. PROPER NOUN
  8. NOUN
  9. PLURAL COMPOUND NOUN
  10. BODY PART
  11. NOUN
  12. ADVERB
  13. NOUN
  14. NOUN
  15. NOUN
  16. HISTORICAL FIGURE
  17. NOUN
  18. PLURAL NOUN
  19. NOUN
  20. OBJECT PRONOUN

Alrighty then. Let's have some wordy-nerdy fun!

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Harper Lewis

Intrusive rhyme bothers me, except as a weapon.

Intertextuality is my passion.

Formalist/ New Critical are my guiding theories.

My words are mine, not a robot’s.

MA English literature, CofC

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