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[2] [3] One of the most famous opening lines, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times", starts a sentence of 118 words [4] that draws the reader in by its contradiction; the first sentence of the novel, Yes even contains 477 words. Moby-Dick's "Call me Ishmael." is an example of a short opening sentence.
The contest was started in 1982 by Professor Scott E. Rice of the English Department at San Jose State University and is named for English novelist and playwright Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author of the much-quoted first line "It was a dark and stormy night". This opening, from the 1830 novel Paul Clifford, reads in full:
That Good Night: N. J. Crisp: Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night" That Hideous Strength: C. S. Lewis: David Lyndsay, Ane Dialog: Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe: W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" This Side of Paradise: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Rupert Brooke, "Tiare Tahiti" Those Barren Leaves: Aldous Huxley: William Wordsworth ...
A caption may be a few words or several sentences. Writing good captions takes effort; along with the lead and section headings, captions are the most commonly read words in an article, so they should be succinct and informative. Not every image needs a caption; some are simply decorative. Relatively few may be genuinely self-explanatory.
Raise your hand if you have at least ten books on your “to-read” list. Same, friend (except we have 20). To save you some time, we pored over the most popular self-help books of 2020 and ...
Ducks, Newburyport is a 2019 novel by British author Lucy Ellmann.The novel is written in the stream of consciousness narrative style, and consists of a single long sentence, with brief clauses that start with the phrase "the fact that" more than 19,000 times.
HCE is at first referred to as "Harold or Humphrey Chimpden"; [95] a conflation of these names as "Haromphreyld", [96] and as a consequence of his initials "Here Comes Everybody". [97] These initials lend themselves to phrase after phrase throughout the book; for example, appearing in the book's opening sentence as "Howth Castle and Environs".
Skimming is a process of speed reading that involves visually searching the sentences of a page for clues to the main idea or when reading an essay, it can mean reading the beginning and ending for summary information, then optionally the first sentence of each paragraph to quickly determine whether to seek still more detail, as determined by the questions or purpose of the reading.