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Title: Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools
Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists

Author: Various

Editor: Margaret Ashmun

Release Date: November 26, 2005 [EBook #17160]

Language: English

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MODERN PROSE AND POETRY FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

EDITED

WITH NOTES, STUDY HELPS, AND READING LISTS

BY

MARGARET ASHMUN, M.A.

_Formerly Instructor in English in the University of Wisconsin_
_Editor of Prose Literature for Secondary Schools_

BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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U.S.A

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Symbols for Diacritical Marks:

DIACRITICAL MARK SAMPLE ABOVE BELOW
macron (straight line) - [=x] [x=]
2 dots (diaresis, umlaut) " [:x] [x:]
1 dot {~BULLET~} [.x] [x.]
grave accent ` [`x] or [\x] [x`] or [x\]
acute accent (aigu) ' ['x] or [/x] [x'] or [x/]
circumflex ^ [^x] [x^]
caron (v-shaped symbol) [vx] [xv]
breve (u-shaped symbol) [)x] [x)]
tilde ~ [~x] [x~]
cedilla