Style (Diction) words choice for an argument

Connotation key to argument style which means in Latin roots With a

Grade/Note.
Writers of effective argument know that variety is the spice of life, when it comes
to writing stylish sentences.
Varying sentence length can be especially effective.
Types of sentences
Sentence/Clause
Declarative (.)
verb, express a completion

Independent Clause: Subject,

Interrogative (?)

1. Simple

Exclamatory (!)

2. Compound

Imperative (!/.) command

clauses joined by a
coordNoinator or FANBOYS.

Two or more independent

Dependent Clause

Contains a subordinator. When, which, because, if.

3. Complex one
independent + one dependent clause
4. Compound- complex
Pg. 312
Happy Rogers, age eight, stands among her classmates in the schoolyard at
dismissal time, immune, it seems, to the cacophonous din. Hilton Augusta Parker
Rogers, a poised and precocious blonde, nicknamed Happy, would be at home in the
schoolyard of any affluent American suburb or big-city private school. But here, at
the elite, bilingual Nanyang Primary School in Singapore.
Semi-colon signals a pause that is stronger than a comma but not as strong as a
period.
End Punctuation create stylistic effects.
Dash and colon create different stylistic effects.
Tropes a figure of speech involving a change in the ordinary meaning of the word
or phrase.
Pg. 323
Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and
debasing. But the man who never does anything else, not a help but one of the
most potent forces for evil.