EN 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Real Image, Verbosity
19 Jan 2015
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Examples: city (weak): vague impression, perhaps the one you live in, an arcetype of a city. Toronto (strong): actual city seen car (weak): vague impression of a car. Ferrari (strong): specific classic red ferrari dog (weak): no real image, perhaps one you had. Pronoun: the substitute for a noun some pronouns: it, we, they, she, he, him, her, its, their, his, her, i, you. But pronouns only make full meaning in context. Weak writing often contains pronouns without antecedents or confusion over which noun pronoun refers to. Sally and mary spent the night at her house. (weak) Napoleon sat on the horse napoleon junior just after losing the war and wondered how much. In newfoundland they used to have a lot of fish. In new york city they have too much crime. Vague pronouns diminish our faith in the writer. Antecedentless pronouns are like rattles in a car.
