Final Blog Assessment 1B

1.    What specific words/phrases demonstrate your writer’s voice? How do these words/phrases showcase your personality as a writer?

    

     The blog post that I chose for my assessment was "Impact of Setting in Divergent". I thought this was my best post for voice because a sentence before I say the first quote I say, "(that's really high up if you ask me...)" (Burton 7/8). That is like a side note or a way to look into my thoughts. You can almost hear me saying it to you as you read the blog. Another example of voice is at the end when I ask the readers a question, I say, "Would you want to jump off of a one hundred story building, only depending on a few people to catch you?" (Burton 7/8). In that example, I am trying to make the reader think or be more engaged if they were not engaged already. As for words, I use crazy (quite frequently) and suspense. Those two words I use quite a bit in my everyday life, so if you knew me well you might be able to hear me more than someone who doesn't necessarily know that!

2.  What purposeful diction AND syntax choices did you make to enhance your writer’s voice? You must choose to discuss at least one diction AND one syntax technique from the list below. Make sure to include textual evidence from your post where you included the diction and syntax choices you discuss.

   I have two examples of formal or elevated diction in my blog post. The first one is, in the very first sentence, I say, "In Divergent, the settings are critical" (Burton 7/8). The word "critical" is an example of formal diction because it makes you pay more attention and it makes my statement seem more important. If I had just said that the settings were important, it wouldn't have sounded as urgent or as important (the irony) as saying they were critical. Another example of diction is when I say, "They got onto a speeding train and took it to the Hancock Building" (Burton 7/8). The word "speeding" is an example of diction because it makes it sound like it is going REALLY really fast. It has that effect because it isn't just saying, it was a fast train. It is giving it more description so it sounds like it is going a lot faster than just a "fast train".  A good example of syntax would be my variety of sentence lengths. For example, I say, "In Divergent, the settings are critical. They set the mood and tone of each event. For example, Tris got invited to go to an event that only Dauntless born initiates were allowed to go to. Not a lot of people were excited that Tris was coming, some even did violent things to her" (Burton 7/8). In the first few sentences I already show a short, medium and a long sentence. A variety of sentence structures keeps the reader engaged because it doesn't seem repetitive and boring.