Blog Reflection #2

In my blog post Good Beginnings I talked about how Veronica Roth started the book Divergent and how I thought it was unique. The line I think best demonstrates my writer’s voice is “The book starts off by describing the main character Beatrice Prior, but the author does so in a very unique way which I have not seen before.” Here I explained my opinion on how the author had a very unique way of describing the main character other than just flat out saying it.

Some purposeful diction that I used in my writing was elevated or formal writing. “One giant wall encompasses all the factions” I used the word encompasses instead of; One giant wall goes around all the factions. Some examples of syntax I used in this post were word order, sentence length, and punctuation the line, “she doesn't just flat out say, Beatrice has a narrow face, wide round eyes, etc.”  Uses commas and etc. to help give an example of what the author could have done but instead took a unique approach. I also use punctuation in the following line in order to help list things. “Abnegation-the selflessness, Erudite-the intelligent, Dauntless-the brave, Amity-the peaceful, and Candor-the honest.” I also used dashes to group the meanings to the title and commas to list them.