Literally and Figuratively: Answers to Practice Exercises

Commonly Confused Words

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Answers to Practice Exercises: Literally and Figuratively

(a) Some students are getting swept out of the library, figuratively speaking.

(b) The word photography literally means "drawing with light."

Glossary of Usage: Index of Commonly Confused Words

Leave and Let
Lead and Led
Lay and Lie

Scrapbook of Styles

Ritual in Maya Angelou's "Caged Bird"
Absolutes and Appositives in Frank Conroy's "Midair"
Parenthetical Details in Capote's Place Description

Classic Essays

"Conversation," by Samuel Johnson
"Defence and Happiness of Married Life," by Joseph Addison
"The Art of Procuring Pleasant Dreams," by Benjamin Franklin

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