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+ Zk | 2022-12-31-subverting-sentences
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+ Subverting expectations with your sentences
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+- Sentence structure
+- Delight and surprise at every turn.
+- Noun-verb descriptions get tiring
+- Articulate defense of choices
+- Compelling narrative, but also compelling way of telling that narrative
+- Understand temperaments, learn definitions, implement variety, learn fragments, articulate decisions, acknowledge revision, produce writing
+- Gregory Orr’s Four Temperaments:
+- A good poem has two (concrete), a great poem has all four
+- Form: The way the writing is constructed (concrete)
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+- Narrative: the story (concrete)
+- Speaker/POV
+- Plot
+- Characters
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+- Music: the way it sounds (lyric/imagination)
+- Meter/scansion/prosody
+- Alliteration, consonance
+- Rhyme
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+- Imagination: the magic that the writer brings (lyric/imagination)
+- Simile/metaphor
+- School (surrealism, minimalism)
+- Magic
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+- Today focused on syntax
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+- Cumulative layering and the appositive:
+- Bridge the gap from abstract to concrete, exteriority to interiority
+- Appositive clarifies the meaning of a sentence
+- Provides essential or additional but not redundant, adds context
+- Helps in identifying other nouns
+- “The tree, a jack pine, sloughed the snow from its branches as if it was waking up.”
+- uses language to imbue additional characteristics
+- 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.“
+- appositive clause at end
+- clauses are cumulative
+- unexpected adjectives add personification/interiority
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+- Above: say writing about religion, using metaphor of benevolence of trees
+- Restrictive and non-restrictive appositives:
+- Restrictives necessary for sentence to function (e.g: including a name with a common noun)
+- Non-restrictive provide additional information, usually a separate clause (still imbues meaning or adds texture)
+- Cumulative layering: adding more non-restrictive appositives
+- 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
+- Useful for putting the main idea first, then expand
+- Example of interiority, gives inner life of the witness (writer as witness)
+- Adds to informality, connection
+- 70% of sentences are cumulative
+- Variety to mix up rhythm of sentence (identify sustained rhythms as places to break)
+- Not really in dialogue, more for mood and scene-setting
+- Restraint: don’t need to layer every noun, just use to propel the plot or the readers
+- Where does the music show?
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+- Hypotaxis and parataxis
+- Hypotaxs:
+- convey logical, causal, temporal relationships
+- used for argument and persuasion
+- provides inforamation and background about topic
+- subordination of one clause to another, unequal roles in a sentence
+- not defining (at least not literally, but interiority) but expanding/building/exemplify
+- Adds motion (e.g: immediate sentence, then use to further immediacy)
+- Polysyndentons:
+- Figure of speech in which conjunctions are used to join connected clauses in places where they aren’t contextually necessary
+- Creates senses/moods (e.g: conjunctions in list to show abundance)
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