Syntax

Lawrence employs abrupt syntax, mocking tone, and impactful allusions to express his antipathy towards Hester Prynne’s character. Throughout his essay, Lawrence utilizes abrupt and choppy syntax to make his points more impactful and striking. The effect that his choice of syntax achieves is that it pierces through the reader like bullets. Compared to a long analysis of his opinion on Hester, the syntax Lawrence uses gets to the point with pithy. He also accompanies such brief syntax with a…

"bliss of solitude", and a relaxing state of being. In these two writings, Muir faces dangers in his path to get to the flower, and Wordsworth stumbles upon these flowers while walking around in nature. They also use techniques, like diction, tone, and syntax in their writing to help effectively make the reader read all the way through…

Are most marriages as easy and happy as they appear to be? The short story, “The Story of an hour,” by Kate Chopin, discusses one of many correct circumstantial answers to the previous question. Through Chopin’s use of diction and syntax, the idea of marriage being constricting is emphasized. When Mrs. Mallard is alone in her room after she finds out that her husband died, she thinks about her future without Mr. Mallard and says, “There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind…

computer. Even if it is not yet possible, the possibility is there. The others, including Searle, hold ground on the opposite side. According to Searle, the mind have semantic, thought, and a mental state, whereas a digital computer is merely made up of syntax, or instructions on how to compute. Therefore, by those virtue, Searle is arguing “no computer program by itself is sufficient to give a system a mind” (Searle, p. 683), due to the syntactical nature of a digital…

being a part of the system fails to understand Chinese, then nothing Sam is a part of will understand Chinese. In addition, Sam is capable of become the system itself by memorizing the entire program. The memorization would only improve efficiency of syntax processing and would contribute nothing to Sam’s understanding of Chinese. Therefore, the claim that the whole system can understand Chinese can be refuted because the argument is invalid. In response to Searle’ argument, I have shown that…

River how it is and by not changing it. He adopts a serious, information tone for his audience, the readers of Texas and other interested in the topic of the Brazos River getting dam through the uses of Ethos, figurative language, pathos, imagery, syntax, and diction. He gives examples of his memories by using ethos, figurative language, and imagery.…

on, a steady, soft, autumn drizzle”. The author uses a syntax in the second half of the reading from the example above, shows a compound and complex sentence. From his description of how the might along the riverbanks are during autumn shows a complete thought of how the rain trickled down, and from how the evening wind felt shows the use of importance to connect the idea of the rain and wind to show the reading’s scenery. In the use of syntax, described the night he experienced but with…

Friday9/25 Formal Formative Assessment #3 Formative Assessment #3 – 3 days into this unit Time: 20 minutes (/discuss) Present point of view/ 1 hour - individual evaluation (Occurs after assigning the writing task and students have developed a tentative thesis statement) At the this point, students will draft a statement addressing the “biggest concern” they have about writing this particular paper. Allow students to discuss in small groups while teacher circulates to assess what is needed to…

individual style in which an author writes his or her works. Author’s voice has been prevalent throughout literature. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls develops her own voice trough her writing. Within several significant events, she uses diction, syntax, figurative language, point of view, and many other styles of writing to portray what happened to the reader. At the beginning of the story, Walls starts off the memoir with an extremely significant event. As she is riding in a taxi to a…

was once a difficult task an easy one to complete and out of jealousy. Laziness is viewed by many people as a negative characteristic to have, but after reading and analyzing Christopher Morley’s essay, we see how he views “laziness” and how he uses syntax and satire to achieve his purpose of why laziness is actually a good thing. Throughout the essay, Morley uses the literary devices to be convincing and humorous. For example, he begins the essay using satire saying “ Today we are intended…