Tutor profile: Leeann R.
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Subject: Writing
FAN BOYS is an acronym used to remember the conjunctions that do not always necessitate the use of a comma or semi colon then forming compound sentences. What specific conjunctions do we use FAN BOYS to remember?
For And Nor But Or Yet So
Subject: Literature
Explain the paradox in the following line from Rita Dove's poem Rosa: "Doing nothing/was the doing".
Typically, when a person does nothing, they are just being. However when Rosa Parks did nothing, she began the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The fact that Mrs. Parks did something while seeming to be doing nothing is paradoxical because it the opposite of what doing nothing typically means.
Subject: English
What is rhyme scheme and how do you identify it and indicate it?
Rhyme scheme is the particular pattern of end rhyme that a poem has. You identify rhyme scheme by looking at only words at the end of each line of a poem. The first word is labeled with an "a". All words with in a stanza that also rhyme with the first word would also be labeled with an "a". Continue to work your way through the poem, using the next letter in the alphabet to indicate a new set of rhyming words. For example: Roses are red (A) Violets are blue (B) I cannot wait (C) to tutor you! (A) The rhyme scheme of the above poem would be written out as ABCA
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