Top 10 Favorite Sentences of the Year

Ryan

5/20/10

8 English

Mr. H. Salsich

Top 10 Favorite Sentences of the Year:

Essay 18: "Forgiveness."

3/10/10

"These appalling, brutal, berserk battles are examples of the downsides to humanity."

I chose this sentence because it is one of the deepest sentences that I have used all year. This sentence is really noticeable to the reader because I used alliteration also. I feel that the reader would stop after this sentence, and read through it again to soak the entire thing in.

Essay 19: "Scream With Me."

4/8/10

"The character Romeo from Romeo and Juliet fits perfectly with this song, as he suffers from Cupid's merciless shot."

I chose this sentence due to it's "funk." I do not normally use sentences like this, which makes this special. Also, I don't think that I could have done much better on this type of sentence. I feel that this is my most memorable sentence of the year.

Essay 21: A multi-genre essay on the topic of friendship.

4/29/10

"The word friend is just a title."

The reason I chose this word had to due with the placement and strength of the sentence. This sentence started off a poem, and I feel that it really grabbed the reader. It is a very strong statement, and it would grab me if I was the reader.

Essay 14: A multi-genre essay.

3/1/10

"We are nobodies."

This was a line for a free-verse poem that I made, and it was right in the middle of the poem. I chose this because it wasn't like the other lines. Many of them were longer sentences, and they were building up to something, but then this line came and changed the flow of the writing. At first glance, this sentence seems out of place, but after reading it over, it seems perfect to me.

Essay 11: "Growth."

1/16/10

"You can’t out run it, you can’t hide from it, you can only face it."

I'm proud of this line because I used skills that are very important in writing without even realizing it. I did not think of the repetition as anything special when I first made this, but looking back, I love the way I used it.

Essay 23: "This I Believe."

5/17/10

"Music is the strongest force on the earth."

I chose this sentence because it did exactly what its job was. This was the topic sentence for my first body paragraph, and I think that this could have really hooked the reader. This sentence could be better, but I really like how I phrased that music was the, "Strongest force on the earth."

Essay 20: "Family."

4/20/10

"Whether my parents are having an argument with me, whether my friends and I are having an argument, whether my parents are having an argument with their parents, my dad can always find room for a compromise."

I decided to chose this sentence because it shows parallelism very well. I don't think that I use this tool very often, but this sentence really shows how well I can fit it in.

Essay 17: "Ladies and Gentlemen."

3/8/10

"No matter who the person is, no matter how they act, no matter what color their skin is, Atticus is always nice and respectful to everybody."

Again, I chose this sentence for the tool I used inside of it. When I wrote this, I did not think I had a real understanding of anaphora, but this sentence came out great, and I really like the way that it flows. I think that this sentence also fits perfectly in the paragraph.

Essay 12: "A Quote from To Kill a Mockingbird, And its Effect on the Book."

1/25/10

"In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, the character Atticus, knowing all the hatred that is in the world, states, “Whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”

This is one of my favorite sentence because I carefully blended a quote in, and I added an SV split. First, I think that this is one of my better times when I blended a quote into a sentence. I also really like how the SV split does not seem like it was forced out. I feel like I have forced a tool out before, and the result of that was not very good.

Essay 8: "Feeling Unwanted."

12/17/09

"Feeling unwanted or lonely is like you are dethatched from all civilization."

I especially like this sentence for its strength. Plus, I wrote this sentence because I really feel that way. I could have made something up just to fit the topic, but I took the time to think about how I really feel.