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Write On Season 2, Episode 20: The Devil and Henry Kent: Rewriting
On a March day, Henry doesn't believe Mr. Morton's advice that good writing comes from rewriting. That leads to Henry's deal with the Devil: he can write anything he wants in one draft. The Devil will take care of the rest, until the end of the month. Come April Fool's Day, who knows what will happen? Watch Write On Season 2, Episode 20 The Devil and Henry Kent: Rewriting in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of Write On Season 2, Episode 20 and share your thoughts in the comments below!
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30 episodesThe Dreamer: Review 1
Henry reveals to Miss Newton the lessons he has learned through daydreams. Flashbacks retell the need for concrete nouns, the difference between sentences and fragments, commas used with appositives and commas in a series.
Perchance to Dream: Review 2
When Miss Newton criticizes one of his daydreams, Henry tells her of how he learned correct use of the semicolon, quotation marks, and hyphens.
Curses, Foiled Again: Parallelism
The Night Before: Effective Subordination
Show Business: Sentence Length
The Pharaoh's Daughter: The Outline
The Almost Dangerous Game: The Topic Sentence
""You are playing a dangerous game,"" Morton scolds when Henry's latest story lacks a topic sentence. This leads to a dream sequence in which Henry and Miss Newton wash up on an island. He accepts the challenge to write a cohesive paragraph. If the enemy (Morton) spies the mistake, Henry will lose.
Happy Daze: Paragraph Development through Details
The Old Man and the Paragraph: Paragraph Development through Comparison
The Scarlet Pen Pal: Paragraph Development through Contrast
A Critical Lapse: Paragraph Development through Cause and Effect
Miss Newton is scheduled to appear in a play, and Henry has been asked to review it. Sadly, Henry falls asleep in the office, dreaming of Miss Newton's stellar performance. He ends up faking a review, which doesn't fool Mr. Morton any–not when a strike closed the theater.
Gone with the Paragraph: Paragraph Development through Definition
I, Henry: Unity
Scribbling Beauty 1: Coherence 1
Scribbling Beauty 2: Coherence 2
The Rocking Horse Writer: Emphasis 1
Their Finest Paragraph: Emphasis 2
The Case of the Missing Editor: Tone
Transition Trek: Transitions
The Devil and Henry Kent: Rewriting
On a March day, Henry doesn't believe Mr. Morton's advice that good writing comes from rewriting. That leads to Henry's deal with the Devil: he can write anything he wants in one draft. The Devil will take care of the rest, until the end of the month. Come April Fool's Day, who knows what will happen?
An SOS: Loose, Lose / Passed, Past
Jungle Madness: Amount, Number / Fewer, Less
The Revengers: Could Have, Should Have
Beau Jest: Affect, Effect
MacHenry: Awful, Terrible, Nice
Morton claims Henry's casual use of ""awful,"" ""terrible,"" and ""nice"" embarrasses him almost to death. That drifts Henry into a tragic parallel of Macbeth.
Henry Kent, Tycoon: Practical, Practicable / Raise, Rise
Henry's Angels: Regardless, Uninterested, Stationary
Leo Claws: The Business Letter
Dream Weaving: Review 3
Dream On: Review 4
Finally, Mr. Morton learns that Henry's daydreams are his way to learning good writing skills.