Week 8

In the book I liked the Rhythm and Sound section of Chapter 10. I have been taught about the importance of varying sentence length and agree that it is much easier to read a paragraph with this tip used. The following paragraph uses this tip slightly, however, there is another tip from chapter 10 that is well used. See if you can figure out which one I am thinking of.


"Never mind that their wives are about to be widows and their children fatherless. Never mind that their little band of followers will yet be “houseless, friendless and homeless” and that their children will leave footprints of blood across frozen rivers and an untamed prairie floor. Never mind that legions will die and other legions live declaring in the four quarters of this earth that they know the Book of Mormon and the Church which espouses it to be true. Disregard all of that, and tell me whether in this hour of death these two men would enter the presence of their Eternal Judge quoting from and finding solace in a book which, if not the very word of God, would brand them as imposters and charlatans until the end of time? They would not do that! They were willing to die rather than deny the divine origin and the eternal truthfulness of the Book of Mormon."

If you guessed repetition, you are correct. This paragraph includes much repetition with phrases such as "Never mind" and "Disregard all of that."  The book says that repetition can add rhythm to writing. I like the rhythm in this paragraph. Repetition can help readers to be engaged.