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# Subverting expectations with your sentences
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* Sentence structure
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* Delight and surprise at every turn.
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* Noun-verb descriptions get tiring
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* Articulate defense of choices
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* Compelling narrative, but also compelling way of telling that narrative
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* Understand temperaments, learn definitions, implement variety, learn fragments, articulate decisions, acknowledge revision, produce writing
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* Gregory Orr's Four Temperaments:
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* A good poem has two (concrete), a great poem has all four
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* Form: The way the writing is constructed (concrete)
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* Literal forms
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* Narrative: the story (concrete)
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* Speaker/POV
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* Plot
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* Characters
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* Music: the way it sounds (lyric/imagination)
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* Meter/scansion/prosody
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* Alliteration, consonance
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* Rhyme
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* Imagination: the magic that the writer brings (lyric/imagination)
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* Simile/metaphor
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* School (surrealism, minimalism)
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* Magic
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* Today focused on syntax
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* Cumulative layering and the appositive:
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* Bridge the gap from abstract to concrete, exteriority to interiority
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* Appositive clarifies the meaning of a sentence
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* Provides essential or additional but not redundant, adds context
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* Helps in identifying other nouns
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* "The tree, *a jack pine,* sloughed the snow from its branches as if it was waking up."
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* uses language to imbue additional characteristics
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* using simile for personification/interiority
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* "In awe of the jack pine, I didnot believe it until I saw it, *the bird's nest hidden in its needled, benevolent arms.*"
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* appositive clause at end
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* clauses are cumulative
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* unexpected adjectives add personification/interiority
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* Above: say writing about religion, using metaphor of benevolence of trees
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* Restrictive and non-restrictive appositives:
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* Restrictives necessary for sentence to function (e.g: including a name with a common noun)
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* Non-restrictive provide additional information, usually a separate clause (still imbues meaning or adds texture)
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* Cumulative layering: adding more non-restrictive appositives
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* Dependent clauses usually appositives, but may not add additional information, unlike appositives
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* A cumulative sentence is known as a loose sentence that starts with independent clause, then adds subordinate elements or modifiers after subject and predicate
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* Useful for putting the main idea first, then expand
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* Example of interiority, gives inner life of the witness (writer as witness)
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* Adds to informality, connection
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* 70% of sentences are cumulative
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* Variety to mix up rhythm of sentence (identify sustained rhythms as places to break)
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* Not really in dialogue, more for mood and scene-setting
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* Restraint: don't need to layer *every* noun, just use to propel the plot or the readers
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* Where does the music show?
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* Hypotaxis and parataxis
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* Hypotaxs:
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* convey logical, causal, temporal relationships
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* used for argument and persuasion
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* provides inforamation and background about topic
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* subordination of one clause to another, unequal roles in a sentence
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* not defining (at least not literally, but interiority) but expanding/building/exemplify
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* Adds motion (e.g: immediate sentence, then use to further immediacy)
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* Polysyndentons:
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* Figure of speech in which conjunctions are used to join connected clauses in places where they aren't contextually necessary
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* Creates senses/moods (e.g: conjunctions in list to show abundance)
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