Chapter 1 of Young Adventure: A Book of Poems is here in full — 157 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Young Adventure: A Book of Poems is here in full — 157 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
[Stephen Vincent Bene't, American Poet and short-story writer -- 1898-1943.] [Note on text: Italicized stanzas will be indented 5 spaces. Italicized words or phrases have been capitalized. Lines longer than 77 characters have been broken, and the continuation is indented two spaces.] To W. R. B.
Chapter 1 of Young Adventure: A Book of Poems is here in full — 157 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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past form of “capitalize” — draw advantages from
From this reading “Italicized words or phrases have been capitalized.”
plural of “character” — an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
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the act of continuing an activity without interruption
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plural of “phrase” — an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
From this reading “Italicized words or phrases have been capitalized.”
plural of “space” — the unlimited expanse in which everything is located
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plural of “stanza” — a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
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English writer (1832-1904)
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the words of something written
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a native or inhabitant of the United States
From this reading [Stephen Vincent Bene't, American Poet and short-story writer -- 1898-1943.]
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading [Stephen Vincent Bene't, American Poet and short-story writer -- 1898-1943.]
aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
From this reading To W. R. B.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
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the past participle of “be”
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physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
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past form of “capitalize” — draw advantages from
From this reading Italicized words or phrases have been capitalized.
plural of “character” — an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
From this reading Lines longer than 77 characters have been broken, and the continuation is indented two spaces.]
the act of continuing an activity without interruption
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used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
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the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
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plural of “line” — a formation of people or things one beside another
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for more time
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a brief written record
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touching and supported by a surface
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used to join alternatives or possibilities
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plural of “phrase” — an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
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a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
From this reading [Stephen Vincent Bene't, American Poet and short-story writer -- 1898-1943.]
a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air
From this reading To W. R. B.
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plural of “space” — the unlimited expanse in which everything is located
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plural of “stanza” — a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
From this reading [Note on text: Italicized stanzas will be indented 5 spaces.
English writer (1832-1904)
From this reading [Stephen Vincent Bene't, American Poet and short-story writer -- 1898-1943.]
the words of something written
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used to introduce the second part of a comparison
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used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
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used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading To W. R. B.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
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a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite
From this reading To W. R. B.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
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the words that are spoken
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writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
From this reading [Stephen Vincent Bene't, American Poet and short-story writer -- 1898-1943.]
Chapter 1 of Young Adventure: A Book of Poems by Stephen Vincent Benét holds 157 sentences, grouped into 32 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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.
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