This is the second of three posts that we will run this Friday. A parenthetical element is a single-word quotation that functions as a quotation mark.
The term is still confusing to some people.
It has to do with the fact that, when quoting a person or a work of literature, you need to be careful about using words that are not your own. If you have a student or a poet write a book review and it contains a parenthetical element, you can’t just write “Parenthetical: I like ‘a” because it looks as if the author decided to put parenthetical marks in the middle of the words.
The parenthetical marks in this case are for the author’s voice. When you read the words of someone else, or the words of someone’s work, the author will be talking directly to you. That person will be talking directly to you. The parenthetical marks in the book review are for the reader. The book review will be talking directly to you.
So in the book review, it is the reader who is speaking directly to you. So the parenthetical marks are for the reader, but then the author is talking directly to you. The book review will be talking directly to you.
In the book review, it is the reader who is speaking directly to you. So the parenthetical marks are for the reader, but then the author is talking directly to you. The book review will be talking directly to you.
It is for the reader who is speaking directly to you. So the parenthetical marks are for the reader, but then the author is talking directly to you. The book review will be talking directly to you.
Parenthetical elements are not actually words. They are just markers that come after a line that says something like “The author is talking to you directly.” The parenthetical marks are for the reader, but then the author is talking directly to you. The book review will be talking directly to you.It is for the reader who is speaking directly to you. So the parenthetical marks are for the reader, but then the author is talking directly to you.
I’m sure that’s all you’ve been saying, but I’m gonna try to rephrase it in my own words. Sometimes, when I’m reading a book, I’m reading the book author directly. I’m reading not the book words but the book author directly. The book review will be talking directly to you. It’s for the reader who is speaking directly to you.
It’s just a fancy way to talk about the author, and the idea is that the parenthetical marks are for readers so that they don’t have to figure out where they are by looking at the book in the book store.
