Wednesday, September 2, 2009

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I guess I'm suppose to post two examples of noun and verb styles of writing. So here it goes:

The article starts as follows: "Abdullah Laghmani and at least 21 other people were killed in the attack on a mosque in the town of Mehtar Lam.

A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, told AP news agency a suicide bomber had targeted Mr Laghmani." and later continues in past tesnse with little to no verbs such as "Reports say a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a crowd of officials - including Mr Laghmani - who had gathered outside the mosque in Mehtar Lam for a ceremony."

And this has more verbs -
The article starts with this: "Prime Minister Gordon Brown is weighing an invitation to debate with his two main rivals on live television — a first for Britain where leaders have resisted the sort of debates that can make or break election campaigns in countries like the U.S. and Australia."
Already we are drawn to action. Debates, resistance, etc.
Then there are passages which verbs are used to claim future happenings, take the following:
"Next year's election will likely see Britain change its government for the first time since 1997. For more than 12 months, opinion polls have predicted Brown's governing Labour Party will lose to the opposition Conservatives."

1 comment:

  1. Let me rephrase the assignment. The idea is to apply the specific method of analyzing prose from Lanham's chapter one. So you should quote some examples of "noun style" in your post, plus "verb style" - and discuss it the way the author does. This will give you experience recognizing different rhetorical types.

    A lost Vonnegut story was just published, you know.

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