April 14, 1998 
Part Three: Grace 
Lesson Ten: Elegance

Balance and Symmetry

Coordination of clauses, phrases

Uncoordinated balance: 
balancing grammatical structures that are not coordinate 

A setence should move towards  strength. 
Emphasize stress positions in the sentence with words of 
grammatical weight. 

Decreasing order of weight: 
Nominalization> noun > adjective > adverb > preposition

Four devices for elegant stress: 

1. end a sentence with a prepositional phrase beginning with 
``of'' and a nominalization.

2. end a sentence on a word or phrase that echoes or contrasts 
with an earlier word or phrase. 

3. in coordinations, move from a shorter segment to a longer,
and more complex one, by reordering the elements. 

4. Chiasmus (Gk. crossing)
contrast with parallelism. The second half  reverses 
the order of the elements in the first half. 

Exercise 10.3 
edit for clarity, concision, and revise adjectives and adverbs 
that end the sentences to heavily stressed words. 

3. Science has progressed in the past because dedicated scientists 
have overcome the hostility of an uninformed public. 
 
Nuances of length and rhythm

Vary the length of sentences to avoid monotony
Short sentences can strike a note of urgency.

  
Read the Summary of Summaries at the end of Chapter ten.