Life Under The Chief Doublespeak Officer By William Lutz

In the world of politics, courtrooms, banks, hospitals, and even at mechanic shops some amount of doublespeak is lingering. Lutz’s article proves how frequent the use of double speak is and manipulative and decisive the people who use it actually are. After reading this essay, it has become obvious to me that Doublespeak has been used on me throughout my entire life. This article has taught me to analyze and investigate phrases that are convoluted or meaninglessly complicated. His paper teaches the reader to ignore the useless information and strip down a phrase to what it really means. Through Lutz’s use of numerous personal and historical examples, he is able to effectively argue his opinion of the negative uses of doublespeak. Audiences who are often confused or misled by speakers various tactics of doublespeak would highly benefit from this article. In order to understand doublespeak one must first understand why speakers use it and what effects it has on the public. Professionals use doublespeak to deceive because it distorts reality in favor of the speaker, it confuses and corrupts the audiences’ thinking, and it avoids responsibility.

Descriptive language is been used thoroughly throughout this text and has been able to make a point of Josephine’s life and the challenges that adolesces’ face throughout their teen years. This novel was also written in first person form so when you team that up with descriptive language it allows the reader to understand Josephine’s thoughts, feelings and opinions on the issues, which she faces. Marchetta has done this by using the descriptive language repetitively so the audience gets a detailed idea on what she is thinking and feeling. If this technique wasn’t used us as the audience wouldn’t have gotten to know what she really was feeling and how important it was for her to overcome the challenges she was faced with for the new phases of her

Depth of a story relies greatly on the author’s unique way of conveying a tone. There are many great examples of diction in any genre of literature, whether is be of someone’s feelings, a setting, a mood, a person, or an object. Without it, a story would be dull. Diction connects our senses to the actions, the setting, and the mood of a story, thus enveloping the reader into it, which is exemplified beautifully in “The Scarlet Ibis,” “The Most Dangerous Game,” and “The Necklace.”

Imagery is used flawlessly in this short story. O’Connor uses descriptive adjectives fairly often to paint a picture in the reader’s mind and to add spice to her

In the essays "The Miss Dennis School of Writing," by Alice Steinbach, and "No Wonder They Call me a Bitch," by Ann Hodgman, both authors use description to get across the points they wish to make. The authors’ purpose for both of these essays are to catch the reader’s attention as well as to provide the readers with life lessons through descriptive writing. In “The Miss Dennis School of Writing,” Steinbach is trying to teach people about descriptive writing from her own experiences through her teacher Miss Dennis. In “No Wonder They Call me a Bitch”, the author Hodgman is trying to point out that advertisements made by the manufactures of dog food can be misleading.

Please Note: Diction, detail, point of view, organization and syntax are all devices that the author uses to make the tone of the story evident to the reader. Your commentary should

A good story is always structured with details that are easy to follow while intriguing readers with reality and emotions. Edwidge Danticat’s memoir has proven her ability to use descriptions that allows the text and the readers to connect. Through her writing, she is able to get the reader involved in her situation, so that it is as if they are experiencing it too. Adding on, Danticat cleverly writes each type of description in a way that makes them distinct from each other. This connects the two which adds to her message. Descriptions bring life to her story and stresses the real events that happened to her and her family which displays her message effectively. That being said, without objective and subjective descriptions, any piece

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” -Stephen King. Descriptive language helps to create a picture in the reader’s mind. Authors can create descriptive language through narration or dialogue. In the novel The Contender, by Robert Lipsyte, the author uses descriptive language and dialogue to develop the characters and the setting.

A story is only as good as the way it is told. The way a writer uses his or her words to say something is just as important as what they don’t say. Charles Baxter, author of plethora of books and university teacher, writes a craft book that goes deeper than the surface of writing and deeper than the words written down. In Charles Baxter’s The Art of Subtext, he discusses how authors can use the words they do write just as much to express what they don’t write.

Throughout all of the short stories the author uses descriptive language and figurative languge to help the reader visualize the story the way the author intended it to be

In the essay “Doubts About Doublespeak”(1993), William Lutz depicts how utilizing doublespeak can damage a society. Lutz begins with providing examples of doublespeak that range from silly to serious, showing how doublespeak can be harmless, but also disguise a truth with a manipulation of words. There are many different types of doublespeak, Lutz breaks it down into four different categories euphemism, jargon, gobbledygook and inflated language. By breaking them down, Lutz shows the audience that they share similarities in which they make something negative sound better than it is. There are more types of doublespeak that can be seen all around us, moreover, as more doublespeak is being created everyday and everywhere it becomes difficult

Secondly, the use of figurative language is crucial for an impressive pleasurable short story. For instance, in “The Yellow Wallpaper “ Charlotte uses delicious garden, atrocious nursery, blessed little goose, mysterious deep-shaded arbors, the riotous old-fashioned flowers, gnarly trees etc. About the paper she expresses her feeling as “ this paper looks to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had, the pattern lolls look like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes. Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd unblinking eyes are everywhere”. Afterward, she thinks that it is like a woman stooping down and creeping

Write two different descriptions: one in a few short words or phrases and another in a full paragraph commenting on its style, what

The story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker was the best example of description. The author gives really good detail and makes it easy to picture the story in your head. An example of a point where she used good detail is in the first paragraph when she said, “... made each day a golden surprise that caused excited little tremors to run up her jaws.” the author could have just said that harvesting made her excited but she made us feel how excited she was. Another point where she used good detail was in the third paragraph when she described when she saw the water rising up and going down stream as “... tiny white bubbles disrupt the thin black scale of soil…”. Also another point that caught my attention where she used great description was when

While writing about description of a place I realize how interesting is that to describe a place you see with your all senses present. Describing each and every, pleasant or unpleasant detail about place make you go deep inside what you see, feel, hear etc. when I start writing, I came to realize that describing the place and it’s view in positive and negative both aspects is the difficult thing. One must have to be careful while choosing words. I have to keep a difference between pleasant and unpleasant description. Writer’s tool box proves to be very helpful in writing. Five different tools of it make yourself able to analyze different aspects of your writing in a very detailed way. While describing a place writer feels full freedom in sharing of his thoughts. He can write freely