Name: Cesar Cabrera       Date:12/5/2020      

SENTENCE VARIETY

The Thrill of the Chase

Margie Goldsmith

Writers use sentences of different lengths to create sentence variety in their

prose. Sentence length can help add texture to a selection and help the writer
make a point. A good writer uses a variety of sentences to engage the reader and
convey ideas clearly.
Long sentences provide rhythm, substance, complexity, and detail.
Short sentences provide succinctness (getting to the point), drama, and impact.

A. DIRECTIONS: The sentences below are in order from paragraph 5 of “The Thrill of
the Chase.” Read each sentence and then choose the word from the list that best
describes the effect the sentence, and its length, have on you as the reader.
rhythm drama succinctness substance detail impact complexity

1. So Fenn bought an antique bronze chest and started to fill it with treasures.
Succinctness

2. The booty included a jar full of gold dust panned in Alaska, gold coins, large
and small gold nuggets, pre-Columbian gold animal figures, two ancient
Chinese jade carvings, a 17th-century Spanish gold and emerald ring and a
beloved bracelet of turquoise beads, excavated from a Mesa Verde ruin in
1903, that Fenn had won in a game of pool.
Detail,complexity and substance
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3. The total value amounted to about $3 million.
__________________Succinctnes
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B. DIRECTIONS: The sentence pattern in paragraph 5 is short, long, short. Review your
responses in Part A. Then, write what you think the purpose of the paragraph is,
and explain whether this pattern of sentence length suits that purpose.
The purpose is to have variety,by having different kinds of lengths used in
the paragraphs it makes it more diverse, and more appealing to readers.

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