Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Elements of Style
- Diction
- Word Choice
- Coat isn't torn, it's tattered
- Formal/Colloquial
- Connotation/Denotation
- Detail
- Facts/Observations/Incidents
- Precise mental picture
- Directs readers attention
- Focuses on description
- Imagery
- Verbal representation
- All 5 senses
- Visual imagery most common
- Used to impart figuartive meaning
- Syntax
- Verbal pacing
- Sentence length
- Way words are arranged in sentences
- Conformity and nonconformity
- Tone
- Expression of attitude
- Requisite to
understand meaning
- Sets relationship between reader and writer
- Emotion