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Broken Promises

Don’t know when I’ve been so very let downMy lips pressed tight right into a grimaceShould have known, didn’t want to show the frownFrustrated shake of the head, a red face.Tears, a bitter smile, a heavier sigh, I should have known better than to trust youSag against the wall, attempting to hideHands that hang, lifeless, loose, out of your view.I don’t want you to see my shuffling feetWand’ring…

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I truly will never forget my visit to Greenwich where I learned about Harrison and so much more. And Gene, my love, to get me more time in the museum, argued with the guards at the Royal Observatory that his 10 dollar Timex had more accurate time than that kept at a place millions trek to every year. I hear a joke on time, I think of that visit. Much love, and have a wonderful day. Annie

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Sentence Flow

A literary term that we have not talked about in class yet is periodic structure. This literary device helps highlight the main focus of sentences or make a passage less monotonous. Eunice displayed great use of this skill in her description of one of Jackie’s broken relationships, “She describes her life as a starched, white sheet that had always been flat and textureless; however, she merely feels this way because she is comparing her life to the tragic events of Lanier’s father” (Song). Notice how she broke up the sentence into different ‘breaths’ almost. By placing commas and a semicolon in different places she highlights different areas of her sentence, making them stick out more. Her semicolon does a great job to separate two separate ideas. Furthermore, the latter idea points out something that the first one did not see. Instead of starting with the explanation that Jackie is comparing her life to that of Lanier’s father, she leaves it till the end. By doing this, it gives the statement more weight.

Nina Revoyr uses the same literary device in her writing. In the last section of the reading, Revoyr is describing how the younger man would stay at the store late at night when she says, “The place was busy, shelves emptying as fast as they could stock them, new money in the neighborhood, from homeowners and companies, finding its way through their doors” (Revoyr 331). The author displays great control of their writing in this sentence. By making her reader pause, Revoyr better helps the reader to remember this specific idea. Its meaning is also hidden. Texts that are straightforward and that are written in the same sentence structure are a nightmare to read. Can you imagine if Revoyr stated, ‘The store was busy. The shelves emptied fast. The neighborhood had new money…etc.’ This style of writing would be intolerable, and would certainly not win Revoyr any praise on her work. While being easier for the reader to remember, this device also subtlety reveals details. Instead of just saying the store was busy, Revoyr employed a periodic structure; this allowed her to give the reader more information than if she had not broken the sentence up. The pauses allowed her to inform the reader where the money was coming from, ‘homeowners and companies’. This might not have seemed important now, but it has already been introduced. Revoyr, if she would like to, now has the ability to use it later. By sneakily introducing information earlier in a novel, the information carries more weight later in the book if it is used.

-Max

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