First, read "Tool 33" in Writing Tools and then Lia Purpura's "Brief Treatise Against Irony" in Brief Encounters.
Explain in a sentence or two how you could use purposeful repetition (as Purpura does by personifying "irony" as the opening line for most of her paragraphs) in your personal essay.
I can use purposeful repetition in my personal essay in order to reinforce a key idea. For example, my essay describes a tragic event that shaped my life in good and bad ways and repeating the tragic event keeps reinforcing my main idea in my essay.
ReplyDeleteI can use purposeful repetition for the emotion of "regret" that lingers throughout the essay. It would be useful to tie it in by maybe personifying it in each paragraph.
ReplyDeleteRepetition can be used to instill imagery within the audience to further accent a point. By using this rhetoric the author can drive a point to the audience without explicit speculation. In my essay I continually reinforce the anxious obsession with perfection I felt throughout my life as I strive towards a law degree. This obsession is not explicitly stated but laced in the vocabulary used. I relate a story of a time when I tried to pick a career path when I was a young child. This story lays the groundwork for the rest of the paper to continue the ideology. In this way the audience reaches the same conclusion at the end of the paper with a remaining question left to ponder.
ReplyDeleteI could use purposeful repetition in order to reinforce the main metaphor I'm using and make the sub-categories make a bit more sense.
ReplyDelete-Amber G.
I can use purposeful repetition in my essay when referencing the questions which define the different stages of my life. Placing each question at the beginning of the defining moments of my life will give a better flow to the essay, and a better understanding of the importance of my life changing experiences.
ReplyDeleteI am able to use the concept of purposeful repetition in my essay as I emphasize the importance of what my future means to me. It would be useful to assist readers in understanding the points that I hope to get across.
ReplyDeletePaige Oliver
I could use purposeful repetition to emphasis key points and concepts behind my initial thoughts. It is useful to assist readers in gaining an understanding of the ideas behind the written work.
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I could use purposeful repetition in order to distinguish the main points in my essay, and to persuade the reader to focus more on these points.
ReplyDeleteAlondra Moreno
I could use purposeful repetition to make sure the reader understands a special point, emotion, or concept.
ReplyDeleteCarlos Montejo
For my essay, I used and will use purposeful repetition with recurring ideas and main points. Although I won't use a single word, as Purpura did, I will do so with common themes throughout my essay.
ReplyDeleteI could use purposeful repetition in my essay as a way to remind the reader of a particular event that happened( to bring the reader back to to focus). It might also hint a very important theme or lesson in my essay.
ReplyDeleteKimberly Irineo-Donato
I would use purposeful repetition in my personal essay to emphasize the key points of my thesis statement.
ReplyDeletePurposeful repetition is used as an emphasis of the main point. Therefore, repeating important words in my personal essay will accentuate the main idea.
ReplyDeleteMy essay is dedicated to someone who I loved and missed. Because of the incident, not only it changed my life, it also provided me a purpose to pursue something in life. I would like to use repetition to express my emotions and to emphasize the importance of the incident.
ReplyDeleteRepetition can be used to show the importance or meaning of events in my essay.
ReplyDeleteI will use purposeful repetition to reinforce the central theme. I will try not to overuse this rhetorical strategy as it might stray from the focus of my paper.
ReplyDelete-Gelynne Agustin
My essay is written with a strong emphasis on sensory description, self-deprecation introspection, and cliffhanger transitions. With these tools, the main points of the essay can be difficult to comprehend. I can use purposeful repetition to continually emphasize the theme and key points within the essay.
ReplyDeleteI will use purposeful repetition in my essay as a way to relate my supporting details back to my main topic of personal development. I have divided my essay in three sections. It is important for me to use this tool in organizing my essay, making it easier to read.
ReplyDeleteI can us purposeful repetition in my essay by explaining how important my future and my career is to me. I want readers to agree and emphasize with me on what I stand for.
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