Chapter 1 of Punch — Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 is here in full — 608 sentences across 122 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Punch — Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 is here in full — 608 sentences across 122 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
VOL. 104. FEBRUARY 18, 1893. PHANTASMA-GORE-IA! _Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.
Chapter 1 of Punch — Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 is here in full — 608 sentences across 122 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the month following January and preceding March
From this reading “FEBRUARY 18, 1893.”
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
From this reading “_Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.”
having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama
From this reading “_Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.”
plural of “mode” — how something is done or how it happens
From this reading “_Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.”
kill intentionally and with premeditation
From this reading “_Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.”
visual imagery
a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
From this reading “_Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.”
of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity
From this reading “_Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.”
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From this reading 104.
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From this reading FEBRUARY 18, 1893.
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From this reading FEBRUARY 18, 1893.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading _Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.
the month following January and preceding March
From this reading FEBRUARY 18, 1893.
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
From this reading _Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.
having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama
From this reading _Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.
plural of “mode” — how something is done or how it happens
From this reading _Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.
kill intentionally and with premeditation
From this reading _Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.
not any; not one
From this reading _Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading _Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.
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From this reading _Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading _Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.
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From this reading PHANTASMA-GORE-IA!
visual imagery
From this reading _Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.
a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
From this reading _Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading _Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.
of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity
From this reading _Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO.
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From this reading VOL.
Chapter 1 of Punch — Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 by Various holds 608 sentences, grouped into 122 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 1 holds 608 sentences of Punch — Vol. 104, February 18, 1893, unabridged, divided into 122 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Punch — Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 by Various exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 608 sentences, grouped into 122 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 122 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 1 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 50 minutes of reading across 122 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Punch — Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Punch — Vol. 104, February 18, 1893, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
