Question

Which of the following lines from John Muir's "The Calypso Borealis" shows an example of dialect? (10 points)

The flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snowflower.

No other bloom was near it, for the bog a short distance below the surface was still frozen, and the water was ice cold.

"I wish you would write me, say once a year, so I may keep you in sight."

"Mony a puir body has been lost in that muckle, cauld, dreary bog and never been found."
2.
Which of the following words has a negative connotation? (5 points)

Answer 1

The line from John Muir's The Calypso Borealis that shows an example of dialect is the last one:

"Mony a puir body has been lost in that muckle, cauld, dreary bog and never been found."

Let's remember that a dialect is a form of the language that is spoken in a particular part of a country or by a particular group of people. There are many of them in the English language and they have different words and grammar.