Some of the examples are listed below:
1) The prefix "Mac" means "son". "Mc" is an anglicized version that is used in Scotland and Ireland. It is patronym and the female equivalent is Nic. Example is Mackenzie.
2) Prefix fitz has the same meaning with suffix son which the former has been used from Norman times. Therefore, there are examples such as Fitzgerald and Fitzpatrick.
3) In Dutch language, are composed of the combination of father's name and ending. The suffixes are zoon for sons, dochter for daughters. For example, Janszoon and Simonsdochter.
The story Pecos Bill exhibits the characteristics of a tall tale because the things that Pecos Bill and Sluefoot Sue did are more than what ordinary men can do. Bill dug up the Rio Grande to keep out a group of Mexican bandits from entering Texas. When Bill met Sluefoot Sue, she was riding on a giant catfish. Also, Sluefoot Sue was able to rope six steers with one throw of her lasso. When Bill and Sluefoot Sue had their first kiss, Bill was so excited he started shooting into the air and when he finished, there was only one star left in the sky. This is why Texas is known as the "Lone Star" state.
It is paragraph #1 because the other paragraphs are not using imagery. You need to be able to see what they're saying in your mind, like a picture. "Red brick".."absolutely stunning"..."marble floor". Imagery appeals to five senses: hearing, touch, sight, smell, and taste.
The statement best describes the rhyme schemes of "To My Dear Loving Husband" and "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty" is option b. Both poets use couplets for rhyme scheme and structure, inverting sentences when needed to maintain the rhyme. In poetry, a couplet is a pair of successive lines of meter that rhyme and have the same meter. The author uses this literary technique to call the reader's attention.
The correct answer is C. Dreary.
This is because Le Morte d'Arthur is full of melancholy inducing moments due to the fact that everything will fall apart at a certain point. Arthur's death, and his loss, is inevitable, so is the fall of Camelot, and of his Knights of the Round Table.
