Comments on: Syntax and other things http://sixthperiod.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:07:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: sixthperiod http://sixthperiod.wordpress.com/return-of-the-native/syntax-and-other-things/#comment-233 sixthperiod Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:59:40 +0000 http://sixthperiod.wordpress.com/syntax-and-other-things/#comment-233 Found another one! Parrallelism, or it could be repitition: "He staked his watch and chain; and lost as before : staked his umbrella; lost again; staked his hat; lost again; staked his coat and stood in his shirt sleeve; lost again"(204). This syntax is very useful in that it makes this passage appear to be more of a story. It gives the appearance of a narrative or a fable, the reader feels like it's a story being told to them. -Janielle Found another one! Parrallelism, or it could be repitition:

“He staked his watch and chain; and lost as before : staked his umbrella; lost again; staked his hat; lost again; staked his coat and stood in his shirt sleeve; lost again”(204).

This syntax is very useful in that it makes this passage appear to be more of a story. It gives the appearance of a narrative or a fable, the reader feels like it’s a story being told to them.

-Janielle

]]> By: sixthperiod http://sixthperiod.wordpress.com/return-of-the-native/syntax-and-other-things/#comment-217 sixthperiod Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:09:06 +0000 http://sixthperiod.wordpress.com/syntax-and-other-things/#comment-217 "One moment you are too tall, another moment you are too do-nothing, another too melancholy, another too dark, another I don't know what . . ." (76). Wildeve is talking to Eustacia and about how his love for her changes. She used to mean the whole world to him, and although he still 'wants' her in a sense, his love is not as strong, or impassioned as it used to be. O...that was parallelism. -Katie A., NOT Kate “One moment you are too tall, another moment you are too do-nothing, another too melancholy, another too dark, another I don’t know what . . .” (76).

Wildeve is talking to Eustacia and about how his love for her changes. She used to mean the whole world to him, and although he still ‘wants’ her in a sense, his love is not as strong, or impassioned as it used to be.

O…that was parallelism.

-Katie A., NOT Kate

]]> By: sixthperiod http://sixthperiod.wordpress.com/return-of-the-native/syntax-and-other-things/#comment-214 sixthperiod Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:59:21 +0000 http://sixthperiod.wordpress.com/syntax-and-other-things/#comment-214 Parrallelism: "An environment which would have made a contended woman a poet, as suffering woman a devottee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine" (63). Hardy is incredibly good at utilizing syntax, and this sentance effectively characterizes Eustacia's nature, by contrasting her to every other type of woman on the heath. Also, i would like to note that Hardy utilizes passive voice. AHEM. *cough cough* PASSIVE VOICE!!!!!!!!! -janielle Parrallelism: “An environment which would have made a contended woman a poet, as suffering woman a devottee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine” (63).

Hardy is incredibly good at utilizing syntax, and this sentance effectively characterizes Eustacia’s nature, by contrasting her to every other type of woman on the heath.

Also, i would like to note that Hardy utilizes passive voice.

AHEM. *cough cough*

PASSIVE VOICE!!!!!!!!!

-janielle

]]> By: sixthperiod http://sixthperiod.wordpress.com/return-of-the-native/syntax-and-other-things/#comment-72 sixthperiod Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:38:49 +0000 http://sixthperiod.wordpress.com/syntax-and-other-things/#comment-72 Hey guys! I am sure you may have noticed all the numerous amounts of similes Hardy employs. I counted 122 pages where a simile was used, and on several of these pages there were multiple similes (and I am sure I didn't mark all of them) . . . Just to let you know! -Katie A. Hey guys! I am sure you may have noticed all the numerous amounts of similes Hardy employs. I counted 122 pages where a simile was used, and on several of these pages there were multiple similes (and I am sure I didn’t mark all of them) . . . Just to let you know!

-Katie A.

]]> By: sixthperiod http://sixthperiod.wordpress.com/return-of-the-native/syntax-and-other-things/#comment-41 sixthperiod Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:43:01 +0000 http://sixthperiod.wordpress.com/syntax-and-other-things/#comment-41 I found more antithesis and some parallelism! In Book V ch. 2 when Clym is greiving and blaming himself for his mother's death, this sentence really stood out: "Endurance and despair, equanimity and gloom, the tints of health and the pallor of death, mingled weirdly in his face" (312). These opposites capture Clym's instablilty, while the parallel structure of the words of each phrase make this sentence balanced and unique from the rest of the paragraph. alyssa I found more antithesis and some parallelism! In Book V ch. 2 when Clym is greiving and blaming himself for his mother’s death, this sentence really stood out: “Endurance and despair, equanimity and gloom, the tints of health and the pallor of death, mingled weirdly in his face” (312). These opposites capture Clym’s instablilty, while the parallel structure of the words of each phrase make this sentence balanced and unique from the rest of the paragraph.

alyssa

]]> By: sixthperiod http://sixthperiod.wordpress.com/return-of-the-native/syntax-and-other-things/#comment-40 sixthperiod Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:33:38 +0000 http://sixthperiod.wordpress.com/syntax-and-other-things/#comment-40 At the beginning of Book III, ch.6, there is a good use of antithesis. Yeobright is walking from his mother's house to buy a home for him and Eustacia when a huge storm hits the heath. Hardy then spends a paragraph describing the horrible storm. In the forest, "convulsive sounds came from the branches," and trees were "undergoing amputations, bruises, cripplings, and harsh lacerations" (211). Then, in the next paragraph (only two sentences long) he compares the storm in the forest to the tranquil open heath, saying, "Those gusts which tore the trees merely waved the furze and heather in a light caress." alyssa At the beginning of Book III, ch.6, there is a good use of antithesis. Yeobright is walking from his mother’s house to buy a home for him and Eustacia when a huge storm hits the heath. Hardy then spends a paragraph describing the horrible storm. In the forest, “convulsive sounds came from the branches,” and trees were “undergoing amputations, bruises, cripplings, and harsh lacerations” (211). Then, in the next paragraph (only two sentences long) he compares the storm in the forest to the tranquil open heath, saying, “Those gusts which tore the trees merely waved the furze and heather in a light caress.”

alyssa

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