"All the Nice Girls"

This TLS book review Current affairs by Sarah Curtis is very well written. She has a lot of sense of style. It is a short but concise summary about the book "All the Nice Girls". It is written for a broad range of audiences, one for students like me. She uses proper language, for she uses formal words but not to eloquent. The word choice is challenging, but readable with context clues. It’s not easy or hard: it’s just right. She does use clarity as she narrates the story, she clears up any doubts the uses good sentence structure with a combination of straightforward rhetoric. Vividness or visibility is also used by the author as she narrates parts of the book. She does this with many details creating an image of the situation. For example “She evokes the bleak landscapes scarred by bombing and the great orange glow of Manchester burning in the distance.” Another example where the author uses vividness is “She sympathetically portrays the situation of women of the era, especially the dedicated spinster teachers, dressed in hand-knitted jumpers and sensible skirts, except for the elegant headmistress, Cynthia Maitland. Both of these situations are well described making it easy for me to picture the scene. This examples show a good use of vividness. Decorum which is the act of fitting in with your audience is also applied in this article. As she is formal enough but, not too sophisticated for me to say: Boring…Next! In other words, it gives you information about a book, yet keeping in mind the use of decorum to sympathize with the reader. The only element of style the author doesn’t use is ornament. She doesn’t use any cleverness, she is more in the norm.

This looks like an interesting book to read. The author makes it seem very attractive and it gives me the feeling of I want to read it. Great use of rhetoric there Sarah!