What is a Phoneme?

Definition A phoneme is the smallest unit of speech sound that distinguishes one word from another word in a particular language. Each phoneme represents the smallest contrastive sound unit which may bring about a change in the word meaning. Traditionally, the linguists put the phonemes between...

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Quotations by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807–1882) WAS A RENOWNED 19TH-CENTURY NOVELIST AND POET. “My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Secret of the Sea “No one...

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Quotations by Wallace Stevens

WALLACE STEVENS IS A 20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN POET. “The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.” ~ Wallace Stevens, The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm   “If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could...

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Quotations by Sophocles

SOPHOCLES (C. 496 - C. 406 BCE), A PROMINENT ANCIENT GREEK TRAGEDIAN. “Do not believe that you alone can be right. The man who thinks that, The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul— A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.” ~...

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Quotations by William Carlos Williams

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) A PROLIFIC AMERICAN POET AND PHYSICIAN OF THE 20TH CENTURY. “There is nothing sacred about literature, it is damned from one end to the other. There is nothing in literature but change and change is mockery. I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn...

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William Carlos Williams Quick Facts

William Carlos Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning American physician, poet, short-story writer, novelist and essayist of the 20th-century modernist movement. Profile Full Name: William Carlos Williams Birth Name: William Carlos Williams Date of Birth: September 17, 1883 Place of Birth: Rutherford,...

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E.E. Cummings Quick Facts

E.E. Cummings, 20th-century American avant-garde poet, essayist, playwright, and painter.    Profile Full Name: E. E. Cummings Birth Name: Edward Estlin Cummings AKA: Edward Estlin "E. E." Cummings; Edward E. Cummings Date of Birth: October 14, 1894 Place of Birth: Cambridge, Middlesex...

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