https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn Our thoughts on style en-us 2020-08-28 06:45:34 UTC 2026-02-11 04:16:29 UTC hello@padlet.com preeced https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2270007725 2022-08-24 12:04:38 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2270007725 preeced https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2270008037 2022-08-24 12:05:06 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2270008037 preeced https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2270008382 2022-08-24 12:05:41 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2270008382 wineml261 https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272647524 The first paragraph given to us is only a sentence long, its wording is more poetic and leaves a little more to be interpreted. In the line "[...]whether the child would survive to bear any name at all" This kind of language dances around the point in a way, instead of saying "They didn't know if the child would live".]]> 2022-08-26 12:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272647524 https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272648428 The sentences are very long and complicated, for example: "For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography extant in the literature of any age or country."]]> 2022-08-26 12:55:41 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272648428 https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272649266 In the last paragraph of the first text Ernest Hemingway compares the clouds in the sky to "friendly piles of ice cream". Since he used the word "like", this is a simile.

(He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above were the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky. )]]> 2022-08-26 12:56:43 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272649266 https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272650695 In Oliver Twist the writer refers to the child as it in the first sentence. "For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble..." The reason that Charles Dickens does this is because they weren't sure that the child would survive for the whole book.]]> 2022-08-26 12:58:14 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272650695 https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272651209 Charles Dickens has a very formal tone which is evident by his complicated word choice and his cryptic writing that doesn't state his point directly. ]]> 2022-08-26 12:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272651209 https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272652014 Ernest Hemingway writes very descriptively. For example, in the first paragraph,  describes "the clean early morning smell of the ocean". He uses lots of adjectives. ]]> 2022-08-26 12:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272652014 https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272653838 He uses a lot of , -- ,  and ; in order to connect the sentences. He uses a lot of adjectives to describe the story.
He explains story with steps. For example, he uses "Then we set out the lines." "Next we slid into the river." "Then we sat down on the sandy bottom."]]> 2022-08-26 13:01:56 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272653838 https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272654713 The sentence's are very long, for there are only one sentence in a paragraph. Even though they are long winded, we get the point of what he is trying to tell in the story. In the last sentence it tells us about how Oliver is in the moment, but in the end it gets to the women and the point. "As Oliver gave this first proof of the free and proper action of his lungs, the patchwork coverlet which was carelessly flung over the iron bedstead, rustled; the pale face of a young woman was raised feebly from the pillow; and a faint voice imperfectly articulated the words, "Let me see the child, and die.” ]]> 2022-08-26 13:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272654713 https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272655797 In the final paragraph of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, he used a simile to compare the clouds to friendly piles of ice cream; "built like friendly piles of ice cream". This quote is a simile because it compared the clouds to ice cream using like. Using this simile creates an image in the readers about what the clouds looked like in this paragraph. ]]> 2022-08-26 13:04:00 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272655797 https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272656127 Mark Twain's writing is much more emotional and dramatic than TOMatS and OT due to the adjectives used and the pacing of the story, for instance "here would come a blast of wind that would bend the trees down and turn up the pale underside of the leaves; and then a perfect ripper of a gust would follow along and set the branches to tossing their arms as if they was just wild; and next, when it was just about the bluest and blackest--fsst!" is very action packed and tense]]> 2022-08-26 13:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272656127 https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272656585 Mark Twain's grammar is not the most usual. For instance, he sais "anywheres" instead of "anywhere" multiple times. Some other weird words he includes are "warn't", "t'other", of "fsst" (I'm not sure if it's wrong or just weird)]]> 2022-08-26 13:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272656585 Antispiron https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272657355 Instead of Making it descriptive such as including a range of detail, He wrote "Two or three days and nights went by; I reckon I might say they swum by, they slid along so quiet and smooth and lovely." Where he could have mentioned the long, starry, or etc. He also used words such as "Reckon" instead of I recognise. The style used is quite simple although not the same style in modern day English]]> 2022-08-26 13:05:37 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272657355 https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272659365 The author writes using non standard English for example, uses the words "anywheres", "t'other" and "warn't"]]> 2022-08-26 13:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272659365 https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272659507 Ernest Hemingway uses the word but a lot throughout his paragraphs. For example when talking about the ocean he says "she is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel" This is also personification because he describes the ocean as if it was a person.  ]]> 2022-08-26 13:08:10 UTC https://padlet.com/preeced/zpacymfdxla6fvsn/wish/2272659507