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Impact of Word Choice on Meaning And Tone How Structure Affects The Style of a Text Active And Passive Voice Syntax in Writing Definition Examples Identifying Irrelevant Sentences in a Passage

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How Structure Affects The Style of a Text

The lesson is about to hunt the ways in which a text's structure and presentation as well as. It’s style. Keeping in mind the nonfiction texts, here we identify many common styles and checkout they will work together with various common structures.

How Structure Affects The Style of a Text

Structure and Style

Here is an English assignment. The paragraph is based on nonfiction texts based structure.

This is the point, you feel like catching your English book out the window but sit down at the desk and open your computer. You need to focus on what the word structure and style want to say.

The structure is quite simple. It’s away of text presentation. Authors choose the structure to manage their information and ideology in a specific way.

Style is somehow tricky play. The style contains the manner in which an author wants to explain information and ideas. The style of writers is the manipulations of his or her choices of words, mood, imagery, and point of view.

A Variety of Styles

There are some styles that writers take as an adaption, explained here.

The expository is the first style. Using this style, writers go for a fairly formal language to show the connectivity of information about a specific topic. They want to leave out an emotional impact and present their own suggestions related to a subject, instead of keeping an eye on the qualities of the theme itself. The style of Robert Browning's poetry is based on expository style.

The descriptive style is the second. This style is related to writers' concentration power on sensory information to give a complete view picture of an object like person, place, thing, or any incident. They fight to go below the boundaries and explain deeply and capture the minute detail and feel of the subject. The travel article author about France would depict a descriptive style to take out the impressive sides of France.

The persuasive is the third style. This style is famous to capture the audience to accept some specific point of view. The argumentative style based on reasons and proves to carry out the claim. An editorial of a newspaper wants to convince the audience, that the city required a new school building.

This style is persuasive leading with an argument. The narrative style is adopted.

Putting Style Together with Structure

Here are some styles are explained.

Descriptive, based on sensory explanations. Or presents some directions on performing a task.
The problem and solution deal with the problems and gives a solution.
Chronological gives an idea about events order of time.
Cause and effect look at the sides of the causes and effects of an event.
Compare and contrast analyze the differences and similarities between various objects.

The chronological structure does well with the narrative style. The cause and effect and comparison and contrast structures play with the expository style. The problem and solution structure take a lead the persuasive styles. The descriptive structure, of course, goes nicely with the descriptive style.

The style and structure work together and greatly impact on one another. Authors continue with their style having structure and vice versa. The book on the “life of President Abraham Lincoln” follows a chronological structure along with a narrative style.

Causes and effects of tornadoes combine a cause and effect structure along with an expository style.
The article for school having Milton's Paradise Lost to Dante's Divine Comedy is a compare and contrast structure and as well as expository style.
The example of a news editorial is based on a structure with a persuasive style.
The theme based on “historic house” is descriptive.