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What is poetic meter, and why is it useful when analysing poetry?

When we use spoken langauge, we naturally place a verbal stress on certain syllables. Poetic meter is esentially when a poet uses an identifiable pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in their poetry ...
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When do you use 'avoir' and 'être' for past tenses?

In the French perfect tense, avoir and être are both used as auxiliary, or helping, verbs, like have in I have eaten in English. They are placed before the verb which shows meaning: j' ai mangé or il est all...
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Answered by Lewis W. French tutor
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When do you use an accent in Spanish?

There are two ways accents are used in Spanish. To show unusual emphasis. When a word ends in a vowel, n or s , the emphasis falls on the second-to-last syllable, unless there is an accent on another syllabl...
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Answered by Lewis W. Spanish tutor
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How could you sketch a graph for y=x^2-10x+21?

This is a quadratic equation. We can recall that this means the graph will have a parabolic shape. Next we need to do a little bit of manipulation to get our final bits of information. So we want to know whe...
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Answered by Farhin Y. Maths tutor
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What's the difference between covalent and ionic bonding?

So both are examples of very strong bonding. These are strong bonds that are difficult to break. With covalent bonds, the electron are shared between atoms whereas in ionic bonds the electrons are 'taken'. A...
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