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A shorter sentence is noticed when placed amongst longer sentences By Aliisa and Hannah Benefits of using a variety of sentence lengths in writing Using a variety of sentence lengths helps make text interesting ID: 551180

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SENTENCE VARIANCEA shorter sentence is noticed when placed amongst longer sentences.

By:

Aliisa

and HannahSlide2

Benefits of using a variety of sentence lengths in writing

Using

a variety of sentence lengths helps make text interesting.

Using

a mix of sentence structures makes text more inviting and engaging.

You

can use short sentences to create emphasis.

You

can add emphasis by placing key words and terms at the ends of sentences and as the last word in a series

.

A text consisting of varying sentence

lengths is easier to read than

a text

where the sentences are all about the same length. A whole page of extremely long sentences is overwhelming.

A

whole page of very short sentences, on the other hand, is choppy and seems unsophisticated.Slide3

Examples of using only one sentence length in a piece of writing

Notice how the short sentences sound choppy and juvenile.

I was thinking one day.

I thought of something the world hadn’t seen lately

.

My thought was of an adventurous man. The man was on a walking trip through Europe. I thought some more. Then I decided that I should take such a trip. I should give the world something to watch. So I determined to do it. This was in March 1878.

Here’s another version of the same paragraph written in one long and rather overwhelming sentence.

One day it occurred to me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey through Europe on foot, so after much thought, I decided that I was a person fitted to furnish to mankind this spectacle, and it was in March 1878 that I decided I was determined to do it.Slide4

How do you read?

When you read, your eyes move continuously along a line of text, but they make short rapid movements (saccades) intermingled with short stops (fixations). There is a variability in fixations (the point at which a saccade jumps to) and saccades between readers and even for the same person reading a single passage of text.Slide5

Look at these pictures. What is the first thing that you notice about each one?Slide6

How about these?

Have you been paying attention to the dash of colour in each image?Slide7

How does this all connect?

When you looked at the images on previous slides, you found yourself

paying attention

to the

colour

in the images most of the time. Yes? In this particular image a

short sentence

is represented by the bright eyes and the

long sentences

are represented by the black and white background.

In life it is hard to ignore the little details. When you're taking a photo - you want the angle to be just right. You want the colour to be just right. You want to emphasize certain features or ideas.

- You focus on the little differences. The short sentence is the little difference between the long ones.Slide8

Read this paragraph:

Hello there, this is the paragraph you have been asked to read. It may not be the most interesting paragraph you’ve ever read; it may be the most boring paragraph you’ve ever read. That’s fine. It doesn’t really matter because it will all make sense soon – if it doesn’t already. Do you have any idea where we’re going with this? No worries if you don’t since soon you will find out, very soon. Slide9

Here is the paragraph again, something has been highlighted. Something that we hoped you would notice.

Hello there, this is the paragraph you have been asked to read. It may not be the most interesting paragraph you’ve ever read; it may be the most boring paragraph you’ve ever read.

That’s fine.

It doesn’t really matter because it will all make sense soon – if it doesn’t already. Do you have any idea where we’re going with this? No worries if you don’t since soon you will find out, very soon. Slide10

Analysing

“Brenda

hurried to stand beside Thomas. “I still don’t hear anybody, but we can’t have long. Come on.” She peeked into the hallway, then slipped out of the room.

Thomas took a second to wipe his sweaty hands on his pants, then gripped the Launcher and followed her. She turned right. He heard the others fall in behind him; a quick glance showed that Minho’s captor was running along, too, looking none too happy with the threat of an electric bath just inches away.

They reached the end of the initial hallway and made a right without stopping. Their new path looked exactly the same as the last, a beige alley stretching before them for at least fifty feet before it ended in a set of double doors. Somehow the scene made him think of that last stretch of the Maze right before the Cliff, when he, Teresa, and Chuck had run for the exit while everyone else battled the Grievers to keep them safe

.”Slide11

In this extract I was able to only find two short sentences, but it did not take me long since they stood out clearly in the midst of all the longer sentences.

“Come on” is one of the sentences, and although it does not give much detail, it does have a strong impact since it suggests that the situation is rushed. The author has clearly chosen to use this simple phrase instead of something longer, such as: “Hurry up, we have to go now!” to make the events seem both more realistic and fast paced. When someone is scared, rushed or in a tough situation they tend to speak in short outbursts thus

emphasizing

the events more thoroughly through a shorter phrase than a long one. (The reader can infer much more through this choice of words.) The author has also placed this sentence next to longer sentences so that the sentence clearly

emphasizes

all this.

The other short sentence is “She turned right.” It infers that this is merely what she did – she didn’t stop and turn, she didn’t wait and turn. She just turned. The author sees no need to add unnecessary detail in this sentence thus giving it such a great impact in between two longer sentences. It also creates a realistic atmosphere since the main character is running and does not have time to describe everything in too much detail however this is simply a personal opinion. (And since this extract is almost completely built up of long sentences this sentence has much more meaning in the long run.)

This extract clearly helps me understand my chosen technique/principal with more depth since now I have an example that I can use to demonstrate my understanding of the technique/principal and refer to in case someone wants a real example where it can be tested.Slide12

A short sentence is noticed when placed amongst longer sentences. Slide13

If you have any questions. Now is the time to ask.?Slide14

Now. Lets play a game. We are about to show you a piece of writing and we need two volunteers to help us out.When we show the piece of writing both volunteers must find a short sentence as quickly as they can. The one who finds one first – wins.Slide15

“It is a cold morning and I’m not feeling well: fever. Being sick is one of the worst feelings ever, sorry, I’m not all that great at describing. Have I done anything during this long and horrid week of my pathetic life? No, I have not since I am still too sick to do anything and it really sucks. I’m just talking now, talking endlessly about nothing at all. Sorry. If you expect me to apologise again then you are very wrong, because I will not. Wait, what was I talking about again…got lost? Right, I’m sick and my mom wants me to go to school but I don’t want to go. Do I have to go, do I really? What gives her the right to make me go to school on this cold morning? Nothing. This isn’t really going anywhere so I’m going to stop talking. Just wanted to tell you that I still miss you, and I hope you come back in one piece. Love you now and always, forever and ever brother.”Slide16

THANK YOU!