Paragraph Analysis

Y9 LANGUAGE A: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SENTENCE VARIETY
Obj:
To identify LOOSE and PERIODIC sentences in context.
To apply type of sentence structure in context.

Task: read the following extracts from MWS’s FRANKENSTEIN novel, chapter 16. Get in pairs. Carefully and comprehensively read all three extracts. Choose ONE and identify LOOSE and periodic sentences.
Discuss with your partner your choices and justify your reasons.
ANSWER the following question:
How do these sentences build the intended effect of the extract?
EXTRACT 2

"I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair. My protectors had departed, and had broken the only link that held me to the world. For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to control them; but, allowing myself to be borne away by the stream, I bent my mind towards injury and death. When I thought of my friends, of the mild voice of De Lacey, the gentle eyes of Agatha, and the exquisite beauty of the Arabian, these thoughts vanished, and a gush of tears somewhat soothed me. But again, when I reflected that they had spurned and deserted me, anger returned, a rage of anger; and, unable to injure anything human, I turned my fury towards inanimate objects. As night advanced, I placed a variety of combustibles around the cottage; and, after having destroyed every vestige of cultivation in the garden, I waited with forced impatience until the moon had sunk to commence my operations.”
purple=periodic
red=loose
The periodic sentence that is predominating in this paragraph try to kept the author reading because the main clause is at the end of the sentence, a good combination between the loose and periodic let the author keep interesed in what he is reading.