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jailhouse Stylistics :
notes on prose style and function
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- Rhetoric 1
- Repetition- Epizeuxis, Conduplicatio, conduplicatio, Epimone, EPANALEPSIS,
EPISTROPHE...
- Rhetoric 2'
- Structure-Parallel Structure: ISOCOLON, Reversal of Structure: CHIASMUS, order anastrophe,
- Rhetoric 3
- Dramatic-Paralipsis, deferred, the thing already known, APOSIOPESIS, METANOIA, the negative,
- Metaphor 1
- Figures of Comparison-Animals, Nature, Inner States
- Metaphor 2
- Human Biology, Savagery, Poverty,
- Functional Grammar 1
- Theme and Rheme, functions, clauses, conjunction, modal comments, WH- groups,
- Functional Grammar 2
- Process, participants and circumstances, happenings, transitivity, material and mental,
attribution, ...
- Style
- The Saxon finish and restatement, Metonymy, Hyperbole sentence length, Left and right branching,
Uses of the Passive,
- Writing Tips from Fiction
- Beginnings, Immediacy, Characters, Conflict, Tension, Comparison, Resonance, Revision
- Classic Style 1
- Truth, Presentation, Hedges, Scene Joint Attention, Abstractions Can Be Clear and Exact,
Language
- Classic Style 2
- Joint Attention, Steps to classic style, cognitive compression into objects, mental networks,
tutorial
- Legal Writing
- Planning, logical sequences and order, sentences, parallelism, ending emphasis, strong
precision, persuasion, transitions,
- signposts, clutter, Drafting, document design, editing and revision
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Sentences and Words
- Be verb, Pronouns, Him, They, whom, Commas, arrangement, to do list
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Judge Robert W. Jackson stylistics
- Set syllogism and modality
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J1 clause and conjunction
- JOHNSON v. UNITED STATES.
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J2 clause and conjunction