Analysis Of Queen Elizabeth II From A Christmas Message

We may feel powerless alone but the joint efforts of individuals can defeat the evils of our time. Together they can create a stable, free, and considerate society. Queen Elizabeth II, from a Christmas Message

What is repetition?
1. Repetition reiterates or amplifies a statement of different words to show that it holds true under different circumstances. In this way, the statement or idea is given emphasis and clarity. Life is work. Man perfects himself by working. He reinforces himself by industry. His whole existence, otherwise meaningless and trivial, has been ennobled through his labors until he has truly become the lord of creation. Man’s work has built the wonders of the world; the civilization of antiquity. It has wrought
(Induction or Deduction)
1. The induction method of paragraph development is used when the writer arrives at the generalization after an enumeration or examination of particulars.
Into this slum many years ago, walked a woman in white sari. She had no income, no savings, no property – only love in her heart and inspired calling to help the poorest of the poor. She put sturdy arms around the ragged, barefoot children; she washed them. Today, Mother Theresa, the woman in the white sari, is among the best known woman in India. She still has no money, no property, no savings of her own. But her real wealth is Himlayan in size – love and care for thousands of unwanted children, victims of leprosy, the abandoned and orphaned, destitute or dying people.
She is loved by poor and the neglected; revered by the missionaries of charity, the Catholic order herself founded. She is admired by all for she has placed herself in total commitment to the poor transcending all barriers. It is no wonder, therefore, if one day she is pronounced as saint.
1. In the deductive method, the paragraph starts with a general statement and is then followed by particulars which furnish or support the general
Examine the following beginnings for an effective paragraph. Note how curiosity is aroused.
3. Who is the man called “Jose Garcia Villa”. He is called the English poet and critic, Edith Sitwell, one of the greatest poets of our day. Literate Filipinos will agree that he is their country’s best poet. At the same time many will admit that few Filipinos really know him.
4. Now that the mosquitoes happily bound in my neighborhood, I feel I should at least derive some pleasure out of their abundance. The mosquito must have a high and hidden purpose, as yet unrevealed to our finite mind. Indeed, I am inclined to believe that she has. Francisco B. Icasiano, Mosquitoes and Literature

The middle paragraph is intended to bridge the gap between what has transpired and what is expected to be the end paragraph.
1. By the same token, neither the brave nor the cowardly man is born. He is produced. He is a product of education and environment. To be sure, man is born with the instinct of self-preservation. This instinct creates the quality of fear which makes a man either run from danger or attack it. In both cases, the underlying motive is the self-preservation. This motive itself is neither good or bad. It is simply a natural tendency of organic life. When education, however, fails to urge within bounds so that it becomes the sole basis of human action, then it reduces man to state of an