Literary Elements Used in My Essays

As always, my essays usually turn out to be dry and monotonous, but undeniably extensive in informative flesh and teeth. My words could be called repetitive by a few, tiresome by some, but exhaustive by most. I always employ long, winding descriptions to the simplest thing, usually stringing a series of dependent thoughts together at a melodramatic pace. Long sentences that are unequally formed in a series of dependent clauses that eventually ends with the fundamental idea at the end of the sentence becomes a signature flourish in my literary style. The three most conspicuous literary elements of syntax in my former essay are the use of periodic, complex, and long sentences that contribute to my distinctively crystalline style of writing.

Perhaps the most significant element of my writing style is the dominant usage of periodic sentences littered throughout my essay. I usually intended the periodic sentence to gradually unfold the idea contained within the sentence so that the idea may be fully understood and appreciated. When writing the essay, I had fears of my ideas would be understandably misinterpreted, leading to my usage of the periodic sentence format. That allows unintentional syntactical devices, like my procatalepsis employed in my first body paragraph that I used concerning objections of the “Pharisaic righteousness”, to be used without disrupting the logical cause-and-effect flow of my primary point I wished to convey in the sentence. In a particular case in my second body paragraph’s sentence, “because of Christ’s death” is clearly the cause within my logical flow that leads to my singular expression of my “privilege of living a life of holiness with God.” Likewise, third body paragraph conveys that “because I am sig...

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...yntactical usage of periodic, complex, and long sentences that contributed to my style in my essay had the effect of portraying an organized, deliberate, and systematic flow to my essay in exchange for a bland, suffocating atmosphere of excessive clarifications and ideals. I admit that I had no idea what the definition of syntax was before I applied my fingers to the keyboard for this essay, which evidently displays a series of tasteless writing that can only be categorized generously as something slightly above a chemistry lab report. Regardless, the wide range of descriptions, be they boring or not, ultimately contributes to my sincerity in this essay: what sort of person would be so meticulous in his descriptions for something that held no weight to his heart? My sentences are undeniably plain and featureless, but they ring of hard work, deliberation, and heart.