For the first exercise of the unit, your task is to make the Harold Pinter Nobel prize-giving speech informal. Re-write the speech using
the casual register of Sarah Palin and see if you can manage to
convey the same ideas in a different way. You may well find that
some of the more complex ideas become lost, but sometimes the
challenge with speech writing is precisely this: conveying complex
ideas in a style that your whole audience will be able to understand
and relate to.

d.) then bernice winced as marjorie tossed her own hair over her shoulders and began to twist it slowly into two long blond braids until in her cream-colored negligée she looked like a delicate painting of some saxon princess. fascinated, bernice watched the braids grow. heavy and luxurious they were, moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes—and to bernice remained this relic and the curling iron and a to-morrow full of eyes.

- the heat nearly killed them that first summer.