Style is the result of strategy, the language that makes the strategy of purpose, strategy, and style in terms of increasing abstractness. Style is immediate and obvious. | For more material and information please visit l8o THE SENTENCE longer write like Thomas Jefferson or Samuel Johnson we can still use parallelism and balance as ways of organizing some aspects of experience and knowledge and as means of attaining economy emphasis and variety in our sentences. For Practice t The following sentences all exhibit balanced construction. Some exhibit a simple one-to-one balance others are more complicated. Identify the general pattern of each whether------------ ------- ------1---------- ----------J----- and so on. I was enjoying the privilege of studying at the world s finest universities Negroes at home were revolting against their miserable condition. Stanley Sandens As for me I am no more yours nor you mine. Death hath cut us asunder and God hath divided me from the world and you from me. Sir Walter Raleigh For aristocrats and adventurers France meant big money for most Englishmen it came to seem a costly extravagance. Geoffrey Hindley Then she shrieked shrilly and fell down in a swoon and then women bare her into her chamber and there she made overmuch sorrow. Sir Thomas Malory Heaven had now declared itself in favour of France and had laid bare its outstretched arm to take vengeance on her invaders. David Hume The more we saw in the Irishman a sort of warm and weak fidelity the more he regarded us with a sort of icy anger. G. K. Chesterton Building ceases births diminish deaths multiply the nights lengthen and days grow shorter. Maurice Maeterlinck In a few moments everything grew black and the rain poured down like a cataract. Francis Parkman For more material and information please visit SENTENCE STYLES 181 He could not keep the masses from calling him Lindy but he convinced them that he was not the Lindy type. John tardner In literature there is no such thing as pure thought in literature thought is always the handmaid of emotion. J. Middleton Murry Choosing different subjects from those
