EXERCISE 4

● EXERCISE 4 ●

Identify each of the following sentences as periodic, cumulative, or inverted, and discuss the impact of using that pattern. (Each sentence is a direct quotation from essays in this chapter, so you might want to check the context of the sentence to appreciate its impact more fully. Note that some sentences use more than one unusual pattern.)

  1. Similarly, chemicals sprayed on croplands or forests or gardens lie long in soil, entering into living organisms, passing from one to another in a chain of poisoning and death.

    —Rachel Carson, para. 12

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    Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify each of the following sentences as periodic, cumulative, or inverted, and discuss the impact of using that pattern. (Each sentence is a direct quotation from essays in this chapter, so you might want to check the context of the sentence to appreciate its impact more fully. Note that some sentences use more than one unusual pattern.) - Similarly, chemicals sprayed on croplands or forests or gardens lie long in soil, entering into living organisms, passing from one to another in a chain of poisoning and death. —Rachel Carson, para. 12
  2. Among them are many that are used in man’s war against nature.

    —Rachel Carson, para. 16

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    Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify each of the following sentences as periodic, cumulative, or inverted, and discuss the impact of using that pattern. (Each sentence is a direct quotation from essays in this chapter, so you might want to check the context of the sentence to appreciate its impact more fully. Note that some sentences use more than one unusual pattern.) - Among them are many that are used in man’s war against nature. —Rachel Carson, para. 16
  3. I see the spectacle of morning from the hill-top over against my house, from day-break to sun-rise, with emotions which an angel might share.

    —Ralph Waldo Emerson, para. 16

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    Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify each of the following sentences as periodic, cumulative, or inverted, and discuss the impact of using that pattern. (Each sentence is a direct quotation from essays in this chapter, so you might want to check the context of the sentence to appreciate its impact more fully. Note that some sentences use more than one unusual pattern.) - I see the spectacle of morning from the hill-top over against my house, from day-break to sun-rise, with emotions which an angel might share. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, para. 16
  4. Not less excellent, except for our less susceptibility in the afternoon, was the charm, last evening, of a January sunset.

    —Ralph Waldo Emerson, para. 17

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    Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify each of the following sentences as periodic, cumulative, or inverted, and discuss the impact of using that pattern. (Each sentence is a direct quotation from essays in this chapter, so you might want to check the context of the sentence to appreciate its impact more fully. Note that some sentences use more than one unusual pattern.) - Not less excellent, except for our less susceptibility in the afternoon, was the charm, last evening, of a January sunset. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, para. 17
  5. When a noble act is done,—perchance in a scene of great natural beauty; when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying, and the sun and moon come each and look at them once in the steep defile of Thermopylæ; when Arnold Winkelried, in the high Alps, under the shadow of the avalanche, gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades, are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?

    —Ralph Waldo Emerson, para. 20

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    Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify each of the following sentences as periodic, cumulative, or inverted, and discuss the impact of using that pattern. (Each sentence is a direct quotation from essays in this chapter, so you might want to check the context of the sentence to appreciate its impact more fully. Note that some sentences use more than one unusual pattern.) - When a noble act is done,—perchance in a scene of great natural beauty; when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying, and the sun and moon come each and look at them once in the steep defile of Thermopylæ; when Arnold Winkelried, in the high Alps, under the shadow of the avalanche, gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades, are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed? —Ralph Waldo Emerson, para. 20
  6. Regret maybe you’ll consider.

    —Joy Williams, para. 1

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    Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify each of the following sentences as periodic, cumulative, or inverted, and discuss the impact of using that pattern. (Each sentence is a direct quotation from essays in this chapter, so you might want to check the context of the sentence to appreciate its impact more fully. Note that some sentences use more than one unusual pattern.) - Regret maybe you’ll consider. —Joy Williams, para. 1
  7. The oldest, easiest to swallow idea was that the earth was man’s personal property, a combination of garden, zoo, bank vault and energy source, placed at our disposal to be consumed, ornamented or pulled apart as we wished.

    —Lewis Thomas, para. 4

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify each of the following sentences as periodic, cumulative, or inverted, and discuss the impact of using that pattern. (Each sentence is a direct quotation from essays in this chapter, so you might want to check the context of the sentence to appreciate its impact more fully. Note that some sentences use more than one unusual pattern.) - The oldest, easiest to swallow idea was that the earth was man’s personal property, a combination of garden, zoo, bank vault and energy source, placed at our disposal to be consumed, ornamented or pulled apart as we wished. —Lewis Thomas, para. 4
  8. How to get power? is what they’re thinking.

    —E. O. Wilson, para. 13

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify each of the following sentences as periodic, cumulative, or inverted, and discuss the impact of using that pattern. (Each sentence is a direct quotation from essays in this chapter, so you might want to check the context of the sentence to appreciate its impact more fully. Note that some sentences use more than one unusual pattern.) - How to get power? is what they’re thinking. —E. O. Wilson, para. 13
  9. This might turn out to be a special phase in the morphogenesis of the earth when it is necessary to have something like us, for a time anyway, to fetch and carry energy, look after new symbiotic arrangements, store up information for some future season, do a certain amount of ornamenting, maybe even carry seeds around the solar system.

    —Lewis Thomas, para. 14

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    Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify each of the following sentences as periodic, cumulative, or inverted, and discuss the impact of using that pattern. (Each sentence is a direct quotation from essays in this chapter, so you might want to check the context of the sentence to appreciate its impact more fully. Note that some sentences use more than one unusual pattern.) - This might turn out to be a special phase in the morphogenesis of the earth when it is necessary to have something like us, for a time anyway, to fetch and carry energy, look after new symbiotic arrangements, store up information for some future season, do a certain amount of ornamenting, maybe even carry seeds around the solar system. —Lewis Thomas, para. 14
  10. Though not in our time, and not in the time of our children, or their children, if we now, today, limited our numbers and our desires and our ambitions, perhaps nature could someday resume its independent working.

    —Bill McKibben, para. 24

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    Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify each of the following sentences as periodic, cumulative, or inverted, and discuss the impact of using that pattern. (Each sentence is a direct quotation from essays in this chapter, so you might want to check the context of the sentence to appreciate its impact more fully. Note that some sentences use more than one unusual pattern.) - Though not in our time, and not in the time of our children, or their children, if we now, today, limited our numbers and our desires and our ambitions, perhaps nature could someday resume its independent working. —Bill McKibben, para. 24
  11. Every good argument—the argument that fossil fuels cause the greenhouse effect; the argument that in a drier, hotter world we’ll need more water; the argument that as our margin of security dwindles we must act to restore it—will lead us to more La Grande projects, more dams on the Colorado, more “management.” Every argument—that the warmer weather and increased ultraviolet is killing plants and causing cancer; that the new weather is causing food shortages—will have us looking to genetic engineering for salvation.

    —Bill McKibben, para. 12

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify each of the following sentences as periodic, cumulative, or inverted, and discuss the impact of using that pattern. (Each sentence is a direct quotation from essays in this chapter, so you might want to check the context of the sentence to appreciate its impact more fully. Note that some sentences use more than one unusual pattern.) - Every good argument—the argument that fossil fuels cause the greenhouse effect; the argument that in a drier, hotter world we’ll need more water; the argument that as our margin of security dwindles we must act to restore it—will lead us to more La Grande projects, more dams on the Colorado, more “management.” Every argument—that the warmer weather and increased ultraviolet is killing plants and causing cancer; that the new weather is causing food shortages—will have us looking to genetic engineering for salvation. —Bill McKibben, para. 12
  12. What’s at stake as they busy themselves are your tax dollars and mine, and ultimately our freedom too.

    —E. O. Wilson, para. 13

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify each of the following sentences as periodic, cumulative, or inverted, and discuss the impact of using that pattern. (Each sentence is a direct quotation from essays in this chapter, so you might want to check the context of the sentence to appreciate its impact more fully. Note that some sentences use more than one unusual pattern.) - What’s at stake as they busy themselves are your tax dollars and mine, and ultimately our freedom too. —E. O. Wilson, para. 13
  13. When I started trying to follow the industrial food chain—the one that now feeds most of us most of the time and typically culminates either in a supermarket or fast-food meal—I expected that my investigations would lead me to a wide variety of places.

    —Michael Pollan, para. 8

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    Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify each of the following sentences as periodic, cumulative, or inverted, and discuss the impact of using that pattern. (Each sentence is a direct quotation from essays in this chapter, so you might want to check the context of the sentence to appreciate its impact more fully. Note that some sentences use more than one unusual pattern.) - When I started trying to follow the industrial food chain—the one that now feeds most of us most of the time and typically culminates either in a supermarket or fast-food meal—I expected that my investigations would lead me to a wide variety of places. —Michael Pollan, para. 8
  14. Hidden from immediate view in the butterfly-bright meadow, in the dusky thicket, in the oak and holly wood, are the surveyors’ stakes, for someone wants to build a mall exactly there—some gas stations and supermarkets, some pizza and video shops, a health club, maybe a bulimia treatment center.

    —Joy Williams, para. 1

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify each of the following sentences as periodic, cumulative, or inverted, and discuss the impact of using that pattern. (Each sentence is a direct quotation from essays in this chapter, so you might want to check the context of the sentence to appreciate its impact more fully. Note that some sentences use more than one unusual pattern.) - Hidden from immediate view in the butterfly-bright meadow, in the dusky thicket, in the oak and holly wood, are the surveyors’ stakes, for someone wants to build a mall exactly there—some gas stations and supermarkets, some pizza and video shops, a health club, maybe a bulimia treatment center. —Joy Williams, para. 1