When reading poetry, which two guidelines about punctuation should you keep in mind?

a. pause briefly after colons, semicolons, and periods.

b. imagine a comma after every adjective and verb.

c. read capitalized word in more pronounced manner.

d. continue reading if a line doesn't end with punctuation.

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Read the following sentence from excerpt of the narrative of the live of frederick douglass and define the bolded word: "why master was so careful of her, may be safely let to conjecture." question 10 options: a) prayer or hope b) guesswork or speculation c) relief or ease d) disapproval or disappointment

What makes the literal, word-for-word translation of the metamorphosis hard to read?

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.