In the polyglot mass of humanity were members of varied social strata: rich and poor; highly educated and illiterate; religious men and agnostics; the kindhearted and the selfish; courageous men and the dull-witted (Wiensenthal 5).
What do you notice about this sentence? What makes it strong? Using this sentence as a model, write your own sentence mimicking the author's structure. Leave your sentence as a comment on this blog post.
The breakfast buffet was an array of fabulous food: bagels and donuts; crepes and pancakes; ham and canadian bacon; grapefruit and oranges; orange juice and milk.
ReplyDeleteThere were many kinds of cheeseburgers: the yummy and disgusting; the cheap and expensive; the loaded with tomatos lettuce and bacon and the cheese only; the cheeseburgers with no cheese and the last but not least the triple decker cheeseburger.
ReplyDeletein the day and age of high school we are socially classified, jocks and geeks, band and prancers, cheerleaders and beta club members.
ReplyDeleteIn America, there is a great diversity such as: male and female; short and tall; fat and skinny; christians and athiests; smart and illiterate.
ReplyDeleteThe massive crowd in the cafeteria was speckled with several different status quoes: jocks and band geeks; nerds and dropouts; prancers and goths; student council and outcasts; teachers and students.
ReplyDeleteIt the general high school there's the: the popular and the geeks; the smart and the dumb; the somebodies and the nobodies; the jocks and nerds.
ReplyDeleteIn the moments of despair, humans from every walk of life banded together: black and white; young and old; strong and withered, spoiled-silly and impoverished.
ReplyDeleteReally nice, Taylor!
DeleteShequiefaloticia's mood swings were as drastrict as a woman's swings could be: happy then sad; laughing then crying; skippy then stompy; grateful then loathful.
ReplyDeleteThe room's inhabitants had their belongings strewn about: heels and Vans; Pink and Axe; bras and boxers; lipstick and aftershave.
ReplyDeleteThe grocery list she had pinned to the fridge did not make any sense: ice cream and a case of SlimFast; tanning oil and SPF 90 sunscreen; Saw 6 DVD and the new Nicholas Sparks novel.
ReplyDeleteFootball teams very in size of the player and personality of the player: Bags and Big Phil; Cox and Jacob Lawrence; Joey and Anthony Gunderman, Guzman and Jake Flood.
ReplyDeleteOn the road, with the breadth full of cars, many drivers exist: speedy and slow; meticulous and reckless; experienced and new comer; calm and stressed.
ReplyDeleteIn the fruit section of the grocery store there are many fruits which are made differently by being: Large or small; Round or straight; Rough or soft; Juicy or dry.
ReplyDeleteIn the land of Narnia many creatures existed with many different life styles: slow and fast; clothed and unclothed; hairy and shaven; good or evil; hoofed or footed.
ReplyDeleteDown the street in the city ambled a multitude of individuals: shy and outgoing; smart and dumb; rushed and leisured; polite and barbaric.
ReplyDeleteReally good job mimicking that model sentence, Rebecca!
DeleteThe weather in Arkansas was changing faster and more violent than ever before; cold then hot; windy then still; rainy then dry; sunny then shadowing; peaceful then hellacious.
ReplyDeleteWith in our society.in the depths of the world,many different objects exsist: water and vodka; understanding and uncaring; honest and false; city and country.
ReplyDeleteThe range of music is infinite: the fantastic and the horrid; the sweet and the harsh; fast and slow; memorable and dull; the new and the old.
ReplyDeleteIn a modern day high school we are classified into groups: football and band, cheer and pracers, drama and ffa, choir and basketball.
ReplyDeleteIn the hoards of fanatics were people of every class: the curious new comers and the old veterans; the obnoxious juveniles and the peaceful elderly; the name-brand wearers and the low class street kids; the huddled groupies and the silent loners.
ReplyDeleteNice!
DeleteIn chaos of the school play peoples emotions were all over the place: Nervous and calm, anxious and relaxed, loud and quiet.
ReplyDeleteThroughout life's wondrous journey, we endure multiple experiences: sickness and health; sorrow and elation; despair and hope; chaos and serenity; hate and love.
ReplyDeletePretty!
DeleteIn the house on the corner there is a 4-window room with a beautiful, tragic story of: living and dying; beauty and homeliness; joy and pain.
ReplyDeleteThe people unified to stop the chaos: the young and the old; the brave and the cowardly; the sick and the strong; the rich and the starving.
ReplyDeleteThe hospital held various types of people: ingenious and incoherent; dreary and complacent; blissful and reticent; opulent and indigent; godly and agnostic.
ReplyDeleteIn Wal-Mart Martha, my babysitter, had many diverse items in her cart: a bible and a pack of condoms; Snickers and Special K bars; granny painties and a thong; a bikini and a book on how to be modest.
ReplyDeleteHehehehe... Cute!
DeleteHilarious.
DeleteAmid the shelves and cupboards rests books of every sort and specialty: books of fairies and goblins and instructional manuals; tales of galiant knights and queens and bibliographies of famous basketball stars; stories of vampires and witches and historical documents of various civil wars; tales of sweet romance with happy endings and horrific legends of brutal murders.
ReplyDeleteGood!
DeleteThe baseball game was good, but i didn't agree on how the umpires did.
ReplyDeleteRyan, you need to look again at the structure of the model sentence. You didn't use a colon to introduce a list of ideas, semicolons to separate ideas in that list, or antithesis in each idea to provide contrast.
DeleteThe after effects of war vary greatly; peace to hatred; rich to poor; clean to destruction; close to apart.
ReplyDeleteThe museum had everything we could have imagined: dinosaurs from the past and animals in the present; tools used by Indians and new tools that they are making for the future; un-rational laws that discrimated in the past and new laws that give us our rights; the first car and modern cars we use today that use new fuels.
ReplyDeleteEveryone has their own diffent idea of fun: hunting and reading; fishing and writing; singing and basketball; danceing and baseball.
ReplyDeleteIn today's society we have the: famous and infamous; rich and poor; ugly and pretty; popular and unpopular.
ReplyDeleteThe modern society ranges in many ways like: drunks and beggers;rich and poor; young and old; hillbillies and city folk;
ReplyDeleteIn life, we all experience all kinds of different emotions; Happiness and Sorrow; Life and Death; Madness and Joyful;
ReplyDeleteSarah M 2a
ReplyDeleteThe airport showed the diversity of the world: Christians and and atheist;blacks and whites; Jews and Germans;wealthy and poor;snooty and kind hearted; gangsters and cowboys
ReplyDeleteIt's difficult to believe that he has not been diagnosed as bipolar; when he's constantly altering from hysterically upset to hysterically ecstatic, raging with anger to blossoming with ear-to-ear smiles, and giving a brain-surgeon intelligent persona to showing a perfect model of a stereotypically dumb jock.
ReplyDeleteIn the times of great conflict between nations, patriots band together despite more common disagreements; black and white; rich and poor; strong and weak; and young and old to face the larger poroblems of their nations.
ReplyDeletecowboys and gangsters; whores and virgins; gay and straight; big and small; good and bad; black and white; school and job;
ReplyDeleteWhen i got hunting there is a variety of animals i could possibly see. Such as: a bear or rabbit; an elephant or mouse; squirrel or hawk; a penguin or a poodle.
ReplyDeleteWhen I go fishing there is alot of different fish i could catch such as: shark or minno; bass or brim; catfish or dorkfish; whale or crappie
ReplyDeleteAs you are walking through the water park theres no telling what kinda people you may see: tall and short; fat and skinny; mean and nice; hot and ugly; young and old.
ReplyDeleteIn the common school there's the: jocks and the nerds; the smart and the dumb; popular and unpopular.
ReplyDeleteIn the woods there are many things to hunt for: deer and squirrel; opossums and raccoons; snakes and bears.
ReplyDeleteYou are walking to the pool and you come up amoung these non namable people: fat face and skinny face; tall and short; sweaty and not; young and old.
ReplyDeleteIn my wonderful english class my class mates vary: male and female; skinny and fat; smart and dimwitted; hard working and lazy.
ReplyDeleteDifferent people have different emotions: happy or sad; depressed or energetic; mad or joyous; hate or love.
ReplyDeleteIn the library, an array of books awaits throughout the shelves to be read by interested students: fiction and nonfiction; romance and gory novels; educational and picture books; historical and fantasy.
ReplyDeletewake up early in the morning look out the door I see birds, people walking there dogs, and the sun shinning bright.
ReplyDeletewhen you move to a new place people you meet can either be: rude or kind; hot or ugly; smart or stupid; skinny or fat; outgoing or shy; dressy or relaxed
ReplyDeleteThere like different kinds of animals: cats and dogs; snakes and lizards; sharks and fish.
ReplyDeleteIn this wourld when the end is near everything is clashing: Zombies and the liveing; Robots and natrule disaster; Nazies and hippies; Lindsey lohan and rehab; Opra and diates; Paula den and anything not deepfried; the myans and border patrole; Dr.phile and actulle docters; unhappy married people and gay marrage being legalised; and the news vs the actulle truth.
ReplyDeleteSearching through the fridge, there are many diverse things: Orange juice and Mtn. Dew; salad and pie; fruits and chocolate.
ReplyDeleteTheir family had a combination characteristics: Snobs, and Heartfelt; Chanel and dollar general, porche and oldsmobile, flilaet minion and gold fish.
ReplyDeleteThere are many people in this world: truthful and liars; honest and con-men; heros and cowards.
ReplyDeletewhen i was a yong boy there a star in the sky above my house:one night itd be close next itd be far; bright then dim; big then small
ReplyDeleteIn the game of football, there are many different types of players: fast and slow; strong and weak; smart and dumb; starters and benchwarmers; linemen and receivers.
ReplyDelete