Elements of Style: Comparison Between The Enchanted Wood and Grapes of Wrath

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Blyton mainly describes how the children explore through a quaint place. Steinbeck mainly describes the natural phenomena and how they affect people’s lives. The articles, The Enchanted Wood and Grapes of Wrath feature unique writing styles highlighting some similarities and differences in the authors’ writing styles. The former, by Blyton, E. & Newton, J. mainly describes children’s exploration through a quaint place, while Steinbeck focuses on describing natural phenomena and how they affect people’s lives in the latter. (Make the paragraph the unit of composition: The first paragraph highlights the unit of the composition, comparing and contrasting writing styles in two articles, and thus demanding a brief introduction describing the expected content in subsequent paragraphs)
Both of the authors tend to write in a descriptive and calm way. (Omission of needless words and use of concrete language)Both authors employ descriptive writing style in developing their articles. If we don’t read the dialogue, we can see that the tones of the authors are objective and neutral (Omission of needless words and use of concrete language: the statement is not concise and thus requiring modification by removing unnecessary words) The articles highlight the authors’ objective and neutral description of nature or the objects around which their articles develop. They just provide clear describe what they “saw” in descriptions of the objects and characters in their novel (Omission of needless words and use of concrete language). In Blyton’s novel article, she describes the marvelous scenes and of how children find out marvelous wonderful things and make intriguing discoveries in the scenes (Omission of needless words: removal of unnecessary words). In one of the scenes she writes, “Above him, the enormous thick white cloud stretched, with a purple hole in it through……disappeared.” Steinbeck also employs vivid description in developing his article, The Grapes of Wrath. He writes, In “The Grapes Of Wrath”, Steinbeck write “.…a thin hard crust, and as the sky became pale, so the earth became pale, pink in the red.” (There is need for expressing coordinate ideas in similar form and thus requiring a modification of the sentence as indicated) We can see from the sentences that the authors just “plainly” describe the scenes and episodes without adding any emotion to the description. (Omission of needless words)The outlined sentences highlight the use of vivid description by both authors.
Also, we can see from these two sentences that these two authors tend to to describe the scene so that the description will become more vivid (A loose sentence requiring modificati...