Syntax

literature’s meaning will be revealed. Steinbeck’s use of syntax in certain places and parallelism helps to explain to the audience the density of the feelings the farmers had when they had to leave their homes and watch them rot and decay over time during the Dust Bowl period. Steinbeck shows how bad it was, and how much the houses wore out when they were left vacant and empty. Syntax played a big part in Steinbeck’s writing of this chapter. He uses syntax to draw the reader’s attention to a…

literary techniques of biblical allusion, sinful diction, and choppy syntax to prove she is not a praiseworthy character. Lawrence uses a variety of biblical allusions to persuade his audience to believe that Hester Prynne is not a noteworthy character. When describing Hester’s adulterous ness, Lawrence states, “it is Arthur Dimmesdale who dies… she lives on and is Abel” (Lawrence 45). He…

breakfast table and he is drinking coffee. “I just came over/ The store is where I’m going to” (Tapahonso, 27). This line in the poem uses the syntax subject-object-verb. “Some coffee has no kick/ But this one is the one/ It does it good for me” (Tapahonso). That line of the same poem uses the object-subject-verb syntax of the Navajo language. Her need to use the syntax comes from wanting to stick to her Native American roots. This style of writing makes her poetry and stories unique as they…

According to Bruce Trigger (2003; 92), “city-states were relatively small polities, each consisting of an urban core surrounded by farmland containing smaller units of settlement. In territorial states a ruler governed a larger region through a multileveled hierarchy of provincial and local administrators in a corresponding hierarchy of administrative centers.” A civilization is far larger than a city state and territorial state in both land and population, it also has a large surplus of food,…

The beauty of syntax and diction is a huge factor to why English is my most treasured subject. Having the ability to structure articulate pieces of writing is an essential. I love being able to evoke emotion through the precise use of words. Also, essays are involved in almost every course, so loving the most commonly execrated part of school gives me an advantage. Vocabulary says a lot about a person, and all of the endless flash cards i have made for english tests have contributed towards my…

could move his family to a beautiful place like this and live a life away for the high anxiety city they inhabit, but Mammy is holding them back, even more than she already would have before the death of her sons. (E)The value of Hosseini’s use of syntax is to portray to the reader how rushed the movements and thoughts of Laila’s family were in this situation. As the sad news of family death enters Laila’s family’s household, they are quickly filled with thoughts of disbelief and hopelessness…

In order to clearly understand the book, “A Path Appears,” I used critical reading strategies to help guide me through the reading process of the book. Before I began reading the book I started my critical reading process by reading the back of the book to get a sense of feel what the book was going to be about. I closely observed and analyzed the illustrations on the book cover, while trying to predict what the overall purpose of the book might be. While reading through the first couple of…

reading, passive voice was not something I understood much, if at all. I still feel as if I could do more to practice in order to get better at knowing the differences, though practice can help in that aspect. While reading Hale’s article and Sin and Syntax, I noticed she uses a lot of the same writing for both, examples included. Even with these helpful examples, I do find myself confused on determining what falls under passive and active voice myself. Hale uses the clarification “subject…

measurement of linguistic complex- ity involves quantitatively measuring the number and nature of linguistic sub- components and the interconnections between them (Bult ́e and Housen, 2014). The most commonly analyzed linguistic sub-components are syntax, lexicon, and—in synthetic languages—morphology. Syntactic complexity targets pri- marily phrasal, clausal, or sentential elements and is measured with indices such as dependent clauses per clause, complex phrases per phrase, or mean sentence…

The syntax found in “The Gettysburg Address” (1863) by Abraham Lincoln is contained within only ten potent sentences providing a rich variety of mostly compound-complex sentences and peppered with simple sentences. By using this syntax structure, he is nebulous to the meaning or interpretation. However, he garnishes it with clauses, phrases, balanced sentences, repetition, rhyme, rhythm, poetry, and paradoxes. Syntax is not only nebulous, but it zealously guards the rules and yet gambles with…