Leisure is the time that defines who we are and what we want to do in life, it is the time that where we choose what to do, and that defines our character more than anything. In the text "Old Leisure", by George Elliot, the author compares how leisure once was and how it was in society in her day. Throughout the writing, George Elliot reveals her ideas regarding leisure through her embellished diction and her thought out and smooth syntax.
Diction is what makes an author who they are as an individual, it is what makes them unique from all other authors. George Elliot uses very elaborate wording to get her point across about leisure throughout her writing using her very alluring diction to grab the reader and throw them into her viewpoint and position with relative ease. In general, the author uses a very stylistic and appeasing diction to grab the readers attention and to let them get a better sense of what her position is.
I also think that the authors syntax really stood out in the passage in a way that was unappealing and distracting. I feel that her writing flow was very harsh and irritating to try to read through and it made it difficult to fully immerse myself into her ideas and opinions. I really liked her diction which is why I read it and liked it so much, but I found her syntax to be quite distracting and inconsistent with the style of the text.
In the end, I think that George Elliot used her diction and syntax to try to get her point across on how leisure affects us and how it was in her day. This passage was somewhat difficult to read for me do to the exhausting and slow syntax that made the text seem to take forever to get through, which is not what an author should try to do when drawing the reader in.
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