Affirmations By Martha Nussbaum Summary

The author’s main idea and purposes are revealed by a series of anecdotes and allusions. The author gets very personal about the subject, as if she was going through the realization herself. You can see her opinion by the way she refers to certain things. For example, the author brings up an old memory from her childhood in paragraph nine. When she is describing the boxcar children, the words she uses are almost as if they were too

The King uses a lot of stylistic elements in his letter to the Birmingham Jail. Stylistic elements are techniques that give meaning, feeling, or ideas. One of the elements he uses is allusion. An allusion

Style can simply be defined as the way an author writes. Style is the most effective piece to any story because it can determine how the audience deciphers it. McCarthy’s use of short, fragmented sentences emphasize the importance of ultimate survival. For instance,“We have water. That’s the most important thing. You dont last very long without water” (McCarthy 101). The statements are abrupt and straight to the point, which also illustrates the low literacy of the characters as well as survival. The precise, sharp fragments symbolize that in an an apocalyptic world, the use of proper grammar and sentence structure is unnecessary and not relevant to continuity of

To read like a writer means knowing in advanced type of writing will be assigned. This is beneficial, Bunn argues, because when reading like a writer, knowing the style assigned, allows one to look for specific techniques in writing that they could adopt in their own work. To understand how piece was written, or to look back on his architect analogy, it is important to ask questions, assessing what “construction” techniques were effective in building a text. Before reading, one should ask himself who the audience is and the author's purpose in writing. While reading the texts itself, Bunn recommends looking at the style of language used and the effectiveness of evidence as well as the parts that don’t work or are confusing. While reading like a writer and asking these questions, Bunn encourages students to look for whether aspects are appropriate and effective as well as the positive or negative effect they have on readers. Bunn, in recognizing that every word choice made in a text has a certain effect, encourages readers to look critically at that effect in order to decide what strategies work should be adopted in their own

In “To Read like a Writer” Mike Bunns introduces how writing is “a series of choices” with an account of his past as an employee at a theatre. As he was trying to concentrate on his reading, he had an epiphany that literary works are all “a series of choices”(Bunns 72). He then transitions to his main claim of how reading like a writer allows for the reader to determine whether or not to adopt the same style as the piece that the text may have. He breaks this down into subsections that readers need to observe before they tackle the writing, such as context, genre, and publication. Additionally, he points out the necessity to makes notes while reading the

A final feature in the text which is vital for creating an emotional connection with the audience is the style in which it is written as it conveys Galloways personality, which allows the reader to understand the meaning of the text and relate to it, making it easier to connect with. The first element of style that Galloway uses to her advantage is formality; rather than writing it in a complex and serious manner, the writer presents the text in a light-hearted way making it more accessible and enjoyable. Aspects of the text which contribute towards are informality are the use of slang - "LURV", "stunk like a month-old kipper"; use of short sentences - "This did not trouble me. I was a biddable child. Most are."; and parenthesis - "(there were no men in our house)". These stylistic features all mirror the structure of natural, spoken language, therefore the reader feels as

As we read this passage it is full of different rhetorical strategies and the reason they were put in there. The writer’s style is the way he uses his language and the rhetorical strategies that he might use to enhance his writing. As I read the passage I came across syntax which is the war he puts his words to send the reader a message, and ad hominem arguing his point against the person instead of the argument. The rhetorical used in the reading is used cleverly enough to prove a point.

“Just as a painter paints, and a ponderer ponders, a writer writes,” says Roman Payne. Style is a very key aspect in literature. With style the significance of the text is enhanced to a higher level. Likewise it creates momentum and interest in the text. Moreover, when style is analyzed The Handmaid's Tale written by Margaret Atwood is profound, and effectively demonstrates how style can dramatically impact a text. Accordingly, throughout chapter one of The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood’s style leads to an effective use of point of view, an adequate use of narrative elements, and a sophisticated use of diction to connect and portray valuable meaning to the readers.

S2 A “convention” in art, for him, is specific techniques of writing which occur frequently over time in the realm of literature, and writers emulate other people's compositions, which they have already read. Literary conventions, therefore, become standard as a customary way of writing.

Kenneth Burke, in “Psychology and Form” and “Lexicon Rhetoricae,” two brief essays in his book Counterstatement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968), writes that the most profound effects of a work of art are created by the repetition of form; the creation of expectations in a reader through repeated and carefully varied devices, as well as through information, enhances our excitement about information by baffling our emotional expectation, and finally satisfies us with increasingly complex style and devices as well as with plot complications. Language, symbolism, and dramatic action fuse at the end of the work. Burke cautions us to beware of the tyranny of the informational, as characters, and even authors—especially the humorist

When first reading through the piece, it is clear that the author of the summaries lacks any form of writing style. Each new sentence is a slab of information, completely devoid of any

Let me just start off with whoa; that article was one of the better things I’ve read in awhile. I specifically quit language arts this year because how how nothing I was given in class had any lures, just the same old worms. There is some idiosyncrasy (Not stealing that word from the text in the attempt to sound smart) that I enjoy with this style of writing; where you can take any line, get some stock photo of nature, add bloom, set opacity of the text to 80, and voila, you have a 16 year old’s Iphone wallpaper. Then amongst the shading of passages, there are lines that limn what they were having your mind teeter on until that point. When it gives you feeling instead of understanding, and that's what compels the full envelopment of thought through emotion, not curiosity. It all reminded me of reading David Foster Wallace, where cohesion is the soggiest glue and just better to try not to use.

Looking in the mirror can often lead to many hateful, or very horrible thoughts about how someone may feel they look. Many times young people believe that their peers are more attractive or smarter then they are. The opinions of others should not matter, everyone is created differently. People come in many different sizes, looks, and personalities, which is what makes them unique. So next time they look in the mirror, they should remind themselves that they were made to be special and that is something that no one can take away from them. Many different things contribute to ones self image. One affective tool to use is affirmations. Affirmations should be written down and said out loud frequently for it to be affective. It needs to be in

Coyle ( 1993) states that the purpose of stylistics is to uncover the literary language used by the author to formulate his message. stylistics then is concerned with revealing the aesthetic and artistic aspects of a text.

'It is a style of writing in which familiar ordinary aspects of life are depicted in a matter-of-fact straight-forward manner designed to reflect life as it actually is'