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I Never Said I Loved You! Please Keep Go Away NOW: Quiet

Here are 3-item series completing the sentences with the third item in climactic order: 1. Jack fought, cheated, and ultimately lost. 2. He was accused of assault, fraud, and embezzlement. 3. Jack is in jail, but he still loves to scheme, cause trouble, and plot his escape.

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I Never Said I Loved You! Please Keep Go Away NOW: Quiet

Here are 3-item series completing the sentences with the third item in climactic order: 1. Jack fought, cheated, and ultimately lost. 2. He was accused of assault, fraud, and embezzlement. 3. Jack is in jail, but he still loves to scheme, cause trouble, and plot his escape.

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• I never said I loved you!

• Please keep quiet.


• Go away NOW
• YOU are not included in
the list
• She is a ventriloquist
• What words did you
notice?
• Why?
EMPHASIS
• When and where do
we use emphasis?
• Why do we use it?
• Give examples
WRITING FOR EMPHASIS
SECRETS TO WRITING FOR
EMPHASIS

• Passive-Active
construction
• Subordination
• Repetition
• Climactic order
ACTIVE-PASSIVE
CONSTRUCTION
• ACTIVE SENTENCES
PLACE EMPHASIS ON
THE SUBJECT.
• PASSIVE SENTENCES
PLACE EMPHASIS ON
THE OBJECT
ACTIVE PASSIVE
SUBORDINATION
Positions of Emphasis
• When you read a sentence, the parts most likely to catch
your attention and stay in your mind are the beginning
and end; we call them the positions of emphasis, with
the stronger position at the close of the sentence.
• Writers call attention to important ideas by putting them
at the beginnings and ends of sentences.
• This makes it easier for readers to grasp the meaning
and remember important points. It also gives sentences
a rhythmic flow, as in these examples:
• Mary had a little lamb.
• Why didn't they ask Evans?
• Ask and you shall receive.
Subordination

• is a way of combining sentences that


makes one sentence more important than
the other.
• One sentence is under the other sentence
(sub means under).
• Sentences that use subordination
(grammar books call them complex
sentences) have a main clause or
independent clause and one or more
subordinate clauses or dependent clauses.
• One or more of the sentences being
combined is reduced from an
independent clause to a dependent
clause by adding such words as
when, although, if
• (called subordinating conjunctions)
or
• such words as who, what, that
(called relative pronouns).
Depending on its function, a
subordinate clause can be classified
as :
• noun clause, a subordinate clause used like
a noun (it can be a subject or object) (I
don't know what you are talking about.)
• adjective clause a subordinate clause that
modifies or gives information about a noun
(I read the letter that was on your desk.)
• adverb clause a subordinate clause that
functions like an adverb (I will call you after
I get back from the movie.)
WHAT IS THE EMPHASIS?

• The dog was scrawny and old,


and he lived next door; he
barked and howled and kept
me awake all night.
• The scrawny old dog
next door kept me
awake all night by
barking and howling.
• By barking and howling,
the scrawny old dog next
door kept me awake
all night.
Identify the emphasis

• The dog that kept me


awake all night with
its barking and
howling lived next
door.
TRY THIS

• Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937 during


a round-the-world trip. She set a new
speed records for long-distance flying in
the 1930s.
• Subordinate her disappearance to her
setting speed records.
• Subordinate her setting of speed records
to her disappearance
REPETITION
• Repetition links related ideas and
gives sentences a lyrical rhythm. For
example:
• When I was a child, I spoke as a
child, I understood as a child, I
thought as a child; but when I
became a man, I put away childish
things.
(From The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:11)
• You can repeat pronouns,
adjectives, verbs or conjunctions
to emphasize key elements and
create word music. Repetition
also changes the sentence
structure and gives it a "piling-on"
effect:
Examples

•Anaphora
•Epistrophe
• But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not
free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is
still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation
and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years
later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in
the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One
hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in
the corners of American society and finds himself an
exile in his own land..
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are
tiny compared to what lies within us." —
Emerson
• Hourly joys be still upon you!
Juno sings her blessings on you. [. . .]
Scarcity and want shall shun you,
Ceres' blessing so is on you.
— Shakespeare, The Tempest (4.1.108-109;
116-17)
• We are born to sorrow, pass our time in
sorrow, end our days in sorrow.
CLIMACTIC ORDER
• Another way of calling attention to key
ideas is by placing them in climactic order:
that is, arranging them in order of
increasing importance or impact. This
arrangement builds up suspense in a
sentence.
CLIMAX
• What you choose to emphasize
determines your sentence structure.
• Let's say you want to tell readers about
your dog Butterball - a lovely golden
retriever, if a little on the plump side (he
does so love his food). You could highlight
any of these points by leading up to it:
This beautiful golden retriever
with the slight waddle is my dog
Butterball.

He's mine
This is my dog Butterball: he's a
golden retriever, and you can see
he's really beautiful.

He's gorgeous
Exercise A
Complete each of the following sentences by adding a third item to
each series. In number 3 you need to decide all three items for the
series. Fill in the blanks.

1. Jack fought, cheated , and


_______________.
2. He was accused of assault, fraud,
and _________________ .
3. Jack is in jail, but he still loves to
_______________,
________________ , and
________________ .

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