"I lived more in the present: savoring hunger, exhaustion, anxiety for my family, humiliations...most of all humiliations (Wiesenthal 9)."
Using this sentence, write a sentence of your own that copies this structure. You might even try to use a powerful verb like "savor" that brings a strong, contrasting connotation! Put your sentence in a comment on my blog post.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Loose and Periodic Sentences
Read the following sentence. What are the effects of the author's structural choices?
"It was his idea that there is such a thing as a first-hand opinion; an original opinion; an opinion which is coldly reasoned out in a man's head, by a searching analysis of the facts involved, with the heart unconsulted, and the jury room closed against outside influences."
Using this sentence as a model, write one with a similar structure about anything you wish. Post this sentence as a comment on my blog.
"It was his idea that there is such a thing as a first-hand opinion; an original opinion; an opinion which is coldly reasoned out in a man's head, by a searching analysis of the facts involved, with the heart unconsulted, and the jury room closed against outside influences."
Using this sentence as a model, write one with a similar structure about anything you wish. Post this sentence as a comment on my blog.
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