Question
Personal Essay. Structure and Style.
Focus on Style
Style - formal or Informal
Informal - a conversational style that often has short
sentences or sentence fragments, idioms, slang.
colloquial expressions, contractions, a subjective point
of view, and a casual tone.
Idioms are phrases or expressions that have a different
figurative (non-literal) meaning than the literal meanings of
each word or phrase
Common Idioms in American English:
A blessing in disguise
• Meaning: A good thing that initially seemed
• A dime a dozen
• Meaning: Something that Is very common,
not innie
•Adding insult to injury
• Meaning: To make a bad situation even worse
• beataround the buch
• Meaning: Avold sharing your true viewpoint
or feelings because it is uncomfortable
f both worlds
• Meaning: The choice or solution has all the
advantages of two contrasting things at the
same time
• Don't tase a book by its covet
Meaning: Not judging something by its initial
• caught between a rock and a hard place
• Meaning making a choice between two
Which of the following is an
example of an idiom?
A. The twins Kelly and Becca were always
together,
B. The twins Kelly and Becca were always in
close contact with each other.
C. The twins Kelly and Becca were like two
peas in a pod.
D. The twins Kelly and Becca were always
in collaboration with each other.
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Answer
C. The twins Kelly and Becca were like two peas in a pod.