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<h1>Zk | 2022-12-31-subverting-sentences</h1>
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<h1 id="subverting-expectations-with-your-sentences">Subverting expectations with your sentences</h1>
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<li>Sentence structure</li>
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<li>Delight and surprise at every turn.</li>
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<li>Noun-verb descriptions get tiring</li>
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<li>Articulate defense of choices</li>
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<li>Compelling narrative, but also compelling way of telling that narrative</li>
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<li>Understand temperaments, learn definitions, implement variety, learn fragments, articulate decisions, acknowledge revision, produce writing</li>
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<li>Gregory Orr’s Four Temperaments:<ul>
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<li>A good poem has two (concrete), a great poem has all four</li>
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<li>Form: The way the writing is constructed (concrete)<ul>
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<li>Literal forms</li>
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</li>
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<li>Narrative: the story (concrete)<ul>
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<li>Speaker/POV</li>
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<li>Plot</li>
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<li>Characters</li>
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</li>
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<li>Music: the way it sounds (lyric/imagination)<ul>
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<li>Meter/scansion/prosody</li>
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<li>Alliteration, consonance</li>
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<li>Rhyme</li>
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</li>
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<li>Imagination: the magic that the writer brings (lyric/imagination)<ul>
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<li>Simile/metaphor</li>
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<li>School (surrealism, minimalism)</li>
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<li>Magic</li>
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</li>
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<li>Today focused on syntax</li>
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</li>
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<li>Cumulative layering and the appositive:<ul>
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<li>Bridge the gap from abstract to concrete, exteriority to interiority</li>
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<li>Appositive clarifies the meaning of a sentence</li>
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<li>Provides essential or additional but not redundant, adds context</li>
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<li>Helps in identifying other nouns</li>
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<li>“The tree, <em>a jack pine,</em> sloughed the snow from its branches as if it was waking up.”<ul>
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<li>uses language to imbue additional characteristics </li>
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<li>using simile for personification/interiority</li>
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<li>“In awe of the jack pine, I didnot believe it until I saw it, <em>the bird’s nest hidden in its needled, benevolent arms.</em>“<ul>
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<li>appositive clause at end</li>
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<li>clauses are cumulative</li>
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<li>unexpected adjectives add personification/interiority</li>
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<li>Above: say writing about religion, using metaphor of benevolence of trees</li>
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<li>Restrictive and non-restrictive appositives:<ul>
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<li>Restrictives necessary for sentence to function (e.g: including a name with a common noun)</li>
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<li>Non-restrictive provide additional information, usually a separate clause (still imbues meaning or adds texture)</li>
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<li>Cumulative layering: adding more non-restrictive appositives</li>
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<li>Dependent clauses usually appositives, but may not add additional information, unlike appositives</li>
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<li>A cumulative sentence is known as a loose sentence that starts with independent clause, then adds subordinate elements or modifiers after subject and predicate</li>
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<li>Useful for putting the main idea first, then expand</li>
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<li>Example of interiority, gives inner life of the witness (writer as witness)</li>
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<li>Adds to informality, connection</li>
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<li>70% of sentences are cumulative</li>
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<li>Variety to mix up rhythm of sentence (identify sustained rhythms as places to break)</li>
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<li>Not really in dialogue, more for mood and scene-setting</li>
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<li>Restraint: don’t need to layer <em>every</em> noun, just use to propel the plot or the readers</li>
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<li>Where does the music show?</li>
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<li>Hypotaxis and parataxis<ul>
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<li>Hypotaxs:<ul>
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<li>convey logical, causal, temporal relationships</li>
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<li>used for argument and persuasion</li>
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<li>provides inforamation and background about topic</li>
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<li>subordination of one clause to another, unequal roles in a sentence</li>
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<li>not defining (at least not literally, but interiority) but expanding/building/exemplify</li>
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<li>Adds motion (e.g: immediate sentence, then use to further immediacy)</li>
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<li>Polysyndentons:<ul>
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<li>Figure of speech in which conjunctions are used to join connected clauses in places where they aren’t contextually necessary</li>
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<li>Creates senses/moods (e.g: conjunctions in list to show abundance)</li>
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<p>Page generated on 2022-12-31</p>
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