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Element of style
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Element of style
TONE
- tone sets the relationship between the reader and t the writer
- it expresses attitude
- identifying and analyszing tone requires carful reading
- familiarity and thought pave the way to understanding
- tone is the writers attitude to his subject or audience
- tone is the hallmark of the writers personality
DICTON
- "words are a writers basic tools
- "refers to the author's choice of words"
- diction shapes the readers perceptions
- diction depends on topic
- the door does not shut it thuds that is a example of diction
- to understand voice students must both here and feel there affects
- to convince , entertain, amuse, imform, or plead-partly determines diction
- diction can make the writing more fresh
SYNTAX
- it encompasses word order, sentence length, sentence focus, and punctuation
- how writers control and manipulate sentences
- it shifts the readers attention
- syntactic tention is the withholding of syntactic closure
- refers to the way words are arranged within sentences
- students learn to analyze punctuation through careful reading and practice
- This kind of repitition valances parallel ideas and gives them equal weight
- writers can also repeat perallel grammarical forms
DETAIL
- detail makes an abstraction concrete
- detail encourages readers to participate in the text
- it includes facts, observations, and incidents
- good writers choose detail with care
- choose detail that does not confuse the writer
- the lack of detail can make the reader feel less for the character
- good detail can make the readers act with conviction
- the more specific detail the more the reader can focus on the text
IMAGERY
- imagery in itself is not figurative
- is the verbal representation of sensory experience.
- imagery depends on diction and detail
- in writing you can have all five senses involved
- imagery can invoke voice
- imagery can have a symbolic meaning