You walk across the lonely desolated beach. With each step your toes brush against the freezing cold water, simultaneously slightly paralyzing your lower body. Its night and the only light that guides your way is the reflection of the moon on the water, which seems to run endlessly across the surface of a calm ocean. The icy cold wind pricks your skin without remorse. Given this story, one can really visualize the scenery. The uses of such words that mentally paint an image in a persons’ mind are called modifiers. Another element of creating a better relationship between the author and the reader in terms of coherency is pronouns. They are both used by authors to promote a better understanding of a piece and to provide a mental image of the authors is trying to portray.
One of the many modifiers I want to talk about is adjectives. In the previous paragraph I used the example of “lonely desolated beach,” to convey a sense of deviation from all matters of thought. If I just wrote “beach” then surely my audience wouldn’t assume the idea I originally intended for them to grasp. Adjectives are like the paintbrushes of words, they give the document life and better coherency.
Coherency comes with the readers’ ability to understand what the author is saying; therefore there should be a concise understanding relationship between the two. A technique that enforces this notion is by placing the reader as the main focus in the story. This lures the readers to engage and interact with the writing themselves at the same time increasing coherency. Thus, when we use pronouns such as you, it will provide the reader to visualize what we, as authors, want them, the audience, to perceive.
Adjectives and Pronouns provide a common ground between a reader and an author, through which they can communicate effectively. Not only does it help the reader to understand the author but it allows the reader to perceive not through their eyes, but through the eyes of the author.
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