Franklin's Use Of Long Sentences example essay topic

The title of this essay "Silence and the Notion of the Commons" gives the same idea of people as programmable and un programmable similar to the idea seen in the Matrix. Whereas programmable people, who are the commons, are the people inside the matrix they are also known as the sheep, the people that believe in everything they are told. The un programmable people, who are the silence, are the people outside of the matrix. Ursula Franklin uses a variety of techniques in order for the audience to fully understand her message, and to inform them of the topics discussed in her essay, as is particularly apparent in paragraph 5 of her essay "Silence and the Notion of the Commons".

Franklin addresses her audience in first person in paragraph 3, "I would like to thank everyone involved in this conference, and the organizers in particular, for inviting me to deliver this talk. I am very obviously an outsider and wish to come to this group to talk about something that is central to all work that you people are doing". Franklin addresses her audience personally. She speaks to them about something not necessarily of her interest but of the audience's interest. Her audience is perhaps mature but may have some people that English may not be a language the understand, therefore by emphasizing very drastically on the important words in her essay by saying them frequently. It is a psychological tact that the more times you repeat a word the better the chance there is of the audience remembering it.

In paragraph 4, Franklin uses repetition to emphasize sound and its sources. She uses "s" sounds throughout the whole passage to im bed the sounds into her audiences mind. The use of alliteration can first be seen in the title "Silence and the Notion of the Commons", the sound that standout are the "S" sounds of Silence and in Commons. This idea is used in paragraph 4 by the repetition of sound and source that is then incorporated into soundscape and landscape. She also uses the phrase "mix sounds" which is ironic to the fact that she only uses the alliteration of the "s" sound in mix and in sounds.

The use of alliteration also allows the audience to pay close attention to the important words. Another technique Franklin uses to maintain the audience's attention is her sentence structure. She uses very long sentences throughout paragraph 4 and has 2 short sentences in the middle of the paragraph. "What is put up is there. That's very different from the traditional soundscape". The first short sentence is to emphasize on the permanence of the landscape.

The second is a transitional sentence into the next topic of her paragraph. The long sentences are all connected with commas; this technique can be used in order for her audience to pick up bits of her speech in a way that they can understand it. Franklin's use of long sentences is very ironic. She is addressing sound, which as we all know disappears once one has heard it, but she explains sound in long sentences rather than with very short and quick sentences. Franklin's use of literary devices such as repetition, sentence structure and alliteration is very affective. It fully allows the audience to understand the words being emphasized in the essay.

It allows the audience to focus on the meaning and the importance of the topic being discussed.