Style (Diction) – words choice for an argument

Connotation – key to argument style which means in Latin roots With a Grade/Note.

Writers of effective argument know that “variety is the spice of life,” when it comes to writing stylish sentences.

Varying sentence length can be especially effective.

Types of sentences Sentence/Clause

Declarative (.) Independent Clause: Subject, verb, express a completion

Interrogative (?) 1. Simple

Exclamatory (!) 2. Compound

Imperative (!/.) command Two or more independent clauses joined by a Dependent Clause coordNoinator or FANBOYS.

Contains a subordinator. When, which, because, if.

3. Complex – one independent + one dependent clause

4. Compound- complex

Pg. 312

Happy Rogers, age eight, stands among her classmates in the schoolyard at dismissal time, immune, it seems, to the cacophonous din. Hilton Augusta Parker Rogers, a poised and precocious blonde, nicknamed Happy, would be at home in the schoolyard of any affluent American suburb or big-city private school. But here, at the elite, bilingual Nanyang Primary School in Singapore.

Semi-colon signals a pause that is stronger than a comma but not as strong as a period.

End Punctuation create stylistic effects.

Dash and colon create different stylistic effects.

Tropes – a figure of speech involving a change in the ordinary meaning of the word or phrase.

Pg. 323

Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. But the man who never does anything else, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil.