Final blogging assessment question 2

1    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.

Response:      My syntax choice that enhanced my writer’s voice was sentence length which is medium. I chose this one because a medium sentence length allows you to get the message across to the reader without boring them and not making it feel to long. An example of this is when I write, “Maybe I wasn’t far enough into it because to me it was a total bore” I was able to tell the reader I found it boring and it may have been because I wasn’t far enough into it without a lengthy explanation. For my diction that I used to enhance my writer’s voice, I used was low or informal diction. An example of this is when I say, “I may continue reading some other time but not now” this shows low diction because I could’ve changed continue to presume or another word but I used continue because it is the best word to describe it and has a different meaning that the other words which could be seen as denotation and connotation also.     

Final blogging assesment question 1

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

Response:      Throughout this blog post I have used voice to help entertain the reader and “showcase (my) personality as a writer”. In my blog, Why I Stopped Reading the Hobbit posted January 5th 2014, I have a couple examples of voice such as when I say, “I can’t stand reading this book” which demonstrates my voice because it shows my personality and my opinion towards The Hobbit. It allows the reader to pick up the authors tone and how he (in this case me), feels about the book while they may also pick up a mood from the authors tone. Another example of voice is when I said, “Maybe I wasn’t far enough into it because to me it was a total bore” and this shows my voice because it reflects my personality and tells the reader what books I may like or that I don’t like the beginning of the book.

Behavior of the people

In my book Champion by Marie Lu the many characters in this book show how people in real life act because they have situations that people today can relate to. For example, the people in the town are being shot and once people around saw this they acted out in terror and ran for the lives some trampling others to get I safety. In reality citizens would act like this to because most people don't want to necessarily die. This could this can be Sen in real life in foreign countries that are being hit by drone strikes because the citizens run for cover and if are brave enough will try and help others.

This can also be seen in the book when Day is over protective of his brother and won't allow the Republic take take him for testing. He knows hat it may be the only chance to save them but his brother had already been through testing that took his eye sight and he doesn't want him to go through another one. In reality family looks after each other like this too because family loves each other and looks out for each other. Day was only looking out for his brothers safety because he was the only family he had left. This shows how his work related to modern society. My question is how protective of your siblings would . You be if the government wanted to take your sibling for kill them.

Text to Text, Self, and World

           In my book Champion by Marie Lu I can make a ton of connections to other books, video games, etc. But its these connections that allow me to relate even more to the book and have an even better idea of what Marie is trying to say or get across to the reader. One of the connections is a text to text connection. In the book Champion when they visit Alaska their world is all about being a high level in a video game where they want to do as many good things as possible or amazing feats to get to the top of the hierarchy. A book that this reminded me of is Epic by Conor Kostick.  In this book they too settle everything by playing a video game and becoming more powerful makes you more respected.

          Another connection I had was text to world, and this is related to World of Warcraft developed by the company Blizzard. In this game you start at level 1 and work your way up to level 90 (the max level) and once you do you get great rewards and people respect you. But to be more specific in this game, you start out with barely anything and by doing quests and good things for other people you get rewards and level up which gains you access to more advanced places just like Alaska in Champion.





         My last connection is to myself and it rolls into the same category as the second one because it involves World of Warcraft. I have played that and payed for the subscription fee for one month and realized I didn't like it that much. I too wanted to get to the highest level and know what it felt like to be very powerful but I realized there were much better things to do in life. My question is, does World of Warcraft sound like a good game TO YOU?