For Dickens' opening to his Tale of Two Cities, he uses one of the longest series of comma splices in the history of literature. Dickens seemingly did this for stylistic effect. In this lesson, young scholars create their own Dickens-like paragraph, but they are required to find (and punctuate properly) appropriate conjunctions to sit between their opposites.. Students will also focus on selecting unique, 25-cent adjectives as they select their antonym sets for their writer's notebook passage, and they will apply their understanding of the three types of conjunctions while they compose their sentences that contain their 25-cent adjectives.