{"id":666,"date":"2017-08-12T06:09:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T06:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/nemcc-englishcomp2kscopexmaster\/chapter\/de-copia-demonstration-of-the-variety-of-language\/"},"modified":"2017-08-12T06:09:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T06:09:02","slug":"de-copia-demonstration-of-the-variety-of-language","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/nemcc-englishcomp2kscopexmaster\/chapter\/de-copia-demonstration-of-the-variety-of-language\/","title":{"raw":"De Copia - Demonstration of the Variety of Language","rendered":"De Copia – Demonstration of the Variety of Language"},"content":{"raw":"

In De Copia, Erasmus re-writes the same sentence over and over to demonstrate the variety of language.\n\nYou will be assigned a sentence to re-write 25-30 times.\n\nHere is one example:\n\n30 variations of \u201cA loud sound awakes me in the night\u201d<\/strong>\n\n1. In the bewitching hour, a resonant buzz raises me out of my crib.\n\n2. A noisy growl returns me to my consciousness in the dead of night.\n\n3. After dark, I am wide-awake because of a powerful bang.\n\n4. I can no longer sleep due to the harsh noise in darkness of the day\n\n5. I rise out of bed because of a deafening noise in the nighttime.\n\n6. At the time when the moon is out high and bright, I become conscious due to a\u00a0resonant sound.\n\n7. A crazy roaring awake me at the darkness of the day.\n\n8. In the night, a blaring sound wakes me up.\n\n9. The god of sleep has abandoned me when a loud noise strikes out in the night.\n\n10. In the dark hours, a big wave of sound had me awakened.\n\n11. I am awakened by the vociferous noise after dark.\n\n12. I am forced to end my body resting process at bedtime due to a powerful boom\u00a0after dark.\n\n13. An extremely harsh buzz forces me out of my dream at the bewitching hour.\n\n14. I am left alone by the god of dream and nightmare when a noisy sound bothers my\u00a0ears.\n\n15. In the night, a loud sound wakes me up.\n\n16. After dark, I rise out of my crib because of an annoying wailing.\n\n17. I wake up because of a heavy bang in the dark hours.\n\n18. I become conscious due to a resonant sound in the dark time of the day.\n\n19. After dark, an intense buzz forces me out of my body resting process.\n\n20. I am awakened by the thundering sound when the sun had rested long time ago.\n\n21. A powerful boom makes me rise out of my sleepiness in the pitch black.\n\n22. A heavy cry awakes me in the dead of night.\n\n23. A deafening noise in the nighttime has me rise out of bed.\n\n24. An unpleasant sound has awakened me after dark.\n\n25. At a bewitching hour, a blaring noise wakes me up.\n\n26. My dream ends abruptly because of a noisy growl in the pitch-black time of the\u00a0day.\n\n27. In the night, I come to my conscious due to the blaring noise.\n\n28. When the moon shines bright and high, I am forced out of my dream because of a\u00a0thundering sound.\n\n29. My sleep is ended when I hear a loud noise after dark.\n\n30. In the night, a resonant howl awakes me.<\/p>","rendered":"

In De Copia, Erasmus re-writes the same sentence over and over to demonstrate the variety of language.<\/p>\n

You will be assigned a sentence to re-write 25-30 times.<\/p>\n

Here is one example:<\/p>\n

30 variations of \u201cA loud sound awakes me in the night\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. In the bewitching hour, a resonant buzz raises me out of my crib.<\/p>\n

2. A noisy growl returns me to my consciousness in the dead of night.<\/p>\n

3. After dark, I am wide-awake because of a powerful bang.<\/p>\n

4. I can no longer sleep due to the harsh noise in darkness of the day<\/p>\n

5. I rise out of bed because of a deafening noise in the nighttime.<\/p>\n

6. At the time when the moon is out high and bright, I become conscious due to a\u00a0resonant sound.<\/p>\n

7. A crazy roaring awake me at the darkness of the day.<\/p>\n

8. In the night, a blaring sound wakes me up.<\/p>\n

9. The god of sleep has abandoned me when a loud noise strikes out in the night.<\/p>\n

10. In the dark hours, a big wave of sound had me awakened.<\/p>\n

11. I am awakened by the vociferous noise after dark.<\/p>\n

12. I am forced to end my body resting process at bedtime due to a powerful boom\u00a0after dark.<\/p>\n

13. An extremely harsh buzz forces me out of my dream at the bewitching hour.<\/p>\n

14. I am left alone by the god of dream and nightmare when a noisy sound bothers my\u00a0ears.<\/p>\n

15. In the night, a loud sound wakes me up.<\/p>\n

16. After dark, I rise out of my crib because of an annoying wailing.<\/p>\n

17. I wake up because of a heavy bang in the dark hours.<\/p>\n

18. I become conscious due to a resonant sound in the dark time of the day.<\/p>\n

19. After dark, an intense buzz forces me out of my body resting process.<\/p>\n

20. I am awakened by the thundering sound when the sun had rested long time ago.<\/p>\n

21. A powerful boom makes me rise out of my sleepiness in the pitch black.<\/p>\n

22. A heavy cry awakes me in the dead of night.<\/p>\n

23. A deafening noise in the nighttime has me rise out of bed.<\/p>\n

24. An unpleasant sound has awakened me after dark.<\/p>\n

25. At a bewitching hour, a blaring noise wakes me up.<\/p>\n

26. My dream ends abruptly because of a noisy growl in the pitch-black time of the\u00a0day.<\/p>\n

27. In the night, I come to my conscious due to the blaring noise.<\/p>\n

28. When the moon shines bright and high, I am forced out of my dream because of a\u00a0thundering sound.<\/p>\n

29. My sleep is ended when I hear a loud noise after dark.<\/p>\n

30. In the night, a resonant howl awakes me.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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