![]() ![]() Example #5: Ode To A Nightingale (By John Keats) Hypotaxis helps in giving this piece of writing special focus and an emotional touch. ![]() Here, the entire passage is based on the description and surrounding of the said animals. This excerpt is about animals, specifically lion and horse. ![]() “After the lions had returned to their cages, creeping angrily through the chutes, a little bunch of us drifted away and into an open doorway nearby, where we stood for a while in semi- darkness watching a big brown circus horse go harumphing around the practice ring…” Hypotaxis also helps here in making clear what the readers should be focusing on. All other descriptions highlight the main idea. The writer puts emphasis on a specific play, which he wrote in his childhood, and he further explains it in the coordinated clauses. “When I was around nine or ten I wrote a play which was directed by a young, white schoolteacher, a woman, who then took an interest in me, and gave me books to read, and, in order to corroborate my theatrical bent, decided to take me to see what she somewhat tactlessly referred to as ‘real’ plays…” ![]()
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