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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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