Final Blog Assessment

In my book, The House of Hades, Rick Riordan does an utterly tremendous job of building suspense. As some of you know, this book is the 4th of the series. The series is called "The Heroes of Olympus", and the previous book in the series is The Mark of Athena. That book left off on a huge cliff hanger, creating lots of suspense for the author to use. Also, in my book, its kind of telling two stories at once because the 7 original demigods got split up. This creates an opportunity for the author to end a chapter of one party on in suspense and continues the next chapter with the other party. Then the reader wants to figure out what is going to happen, and then he/she wants to read more. That is the main purpose of suspense; to make the reader want to read more. It almost makes him never want to put the book down. Suspense gives the reader feelings, like hope, fear, etc.- it can give many kinds of feeling that makes you want to keep reading.

#1:

When I use elevated, low, and abstract diction. I have a couple examples of each that I use in my post. My example of elevated diction is "In my book, The House of Hades, Rick Riordan does an utterly tremendous job of building suspense". Also, I talk about my opinions of the book, and what I think of it, which I think also adds some voice. I explain my opinions in this sentence, "That is the main purpose of suspense; to make the reader want to read more". 

#2:

In my first sentence, I use formal diction. My sentence is, “In my book, The House of Hades, Rick Riordan does an utterly tremendous job of building suspense”. This helps the reader to better understand how great of a job the author does at adding suspense.  For my example of syntax, I used punctuation in my last sentence, “Suspense gives the reader feelings, like hope, fear, etc.- it can give many kinds of feeling that makes you want to keep reading”. This makes the reader stop and think about the feelings I just listed, and it helps them to realize what suspense in a story does. It could also be counted as abstract diction.