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CHAPTER 14: PARTS OF SPEECH OVERVIEW pages 499-500
Literary Model: Descriptive Narrative
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The radiance was that of the full, setting, and blood-red moon, which now shone vividly
through that once barely discernible fissure, of which I have before spoken as extending
from the roof of the building, in zigzag direction, to the base. While I gazed, this fissure
rapidly widened-there came a fierce breath of the whirlwind-the entire orb of the satellite
burst at once upon my sight-my brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder-
there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters-and the
deep and dark tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the "House
of Usher."
-from "The Fall of the House of Usher," Edgar Allan Poe
modify the same adiective?
GRAMMAR I Language in Context: Literary Model
EXERCISE A
1. In the passage above, most of Poe's adverbs modify verbs. List the adverbs that modify verbs.
(Hint: "Rushing" is not a verb; it is a participle modified by the adverb "asunder.")