The Shenn Guy Rhetorical Devices

Visual imagery is often the first step to subconsciously sending the reader into a parallel state of mind as the protagonist, and letting them experience what the characters experienced throughout the story. The visuals used in the beginning of this story convince readers that they have been placed in a safe, secure environment, therefore having a positive effect on readers when they

Scenes in The Road are very graphic and a lot of them put a very vivid image in the reader's head. Good or bad. Not only do the scenes affect the way you read the book, but they way he makes the reader work for what they want. While reading this book, there was a scene that described naked people being held hostage. “Huddled against the back wall were naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands. On the mattress lay a man with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt.” (110). This line in particular puts a discrete image in your head of what may be going on in this scene and how the ‘bad guys’ may be affecting humanity. After the little boy sees this terrible sight he asks the man “We wouldn’t ever eat anybody, would we?” (128). The man helps him understand why the people we’re being held hostage, and why they couldn’t help them.

In Ground Zero Berne uses many examples of imagery and metaphors to paint a descriptive picture of her surroundings and what she saw to enhance her reader’s experience. She uses the imagery to make her readers feel as if they were there and make them feel the same feelings of awareness, and sadness she did. Suzanne achieves this by recalling back to the horrid memories of 9/ll when “the skyscraper shrouded in black plastic, the boarded windows, the steel skeleton of the shattered Winter Garden.” (Berne 176), By using these extremely explicit and descriptive details Suzanne allows her readers to experience the rude awakening she had when she saw nothing in Ground Zero, but was able to recall the chaos that went on that day. Suzanne lets her readers understand what was going on in her mind , and clearly experience what she was feeling that day

The World Trade Center (WTC) held fairly high regard throughout New York as a structurally sound building, but the authors of 102 Minutes beg to differ on this opinion. They use various diagrams and statistics of the incredible impact and destruction the planes caused to the building, arguments against the poor architectural design and support of the towers, and periodic timestamps to make claims and factual statements about the events that occurred. The timestamps serve as a means of the authors building suspense in their audience, deepening uncertainty in the audience which intends to move them to read further and discover the office laborers’ fates. Moments like “At 9:19… we’re trapped… there’s smoke coming in. I don’t know what’s happening”(102 Minutes 186) and when Assistant Chief Callan“stood

Just like every Tuesday, Jane got up and ready for work. She got up at her usual time, about six AM, had a cup of coffee before she got her kids up and ready for school. As she’s helping her three year old daughter brush her teeth, Jane’s husband came in and said his final goodbyes to his wife. Sadly, neither Jane nor her husband knew that though. After about 7:45 AM Jane had her kids dropped off at school or preschool and was now on her way to work at The World Trade Center. September 11th use to be just a normal day in September until terrible events happened; these events changed America’s homeland security, started a war, and a memorial in New York.

September 11, 2001. The day that changed this nation. Thousands of smart, intelligent, and hardworking citizens, that worked in: the World Trade Center, and Emergency Medical servicemen, lives were ended on this tragic date. Wall Street journalist, Michael Burkes, in his Commentary writing, “No Firemen at Ground Zero This 9/11”, recounts the horrific events that occurred on 9/11 and shows how brave the firefighters were. The firefighters were not invited to the tenth anniversary, instead wealthy citizens were.

Vivid images can be found abundantly throughout the novel and helps to portray scenes to the point where the audience can actually imagine, smell, touch, and hear everything that is going on. “No matter how they scrubbed their hands, the residue of Red Hot Mama had a way of sticking round, as pesty and persistent as a chaperone at a high school dance.” (158). In some instances the audience can acquire a sense, based on the description whether the characters are self absorbed, considerate, or overly concerned about their appearance. “I ought to be shot for looking like this” she’d tell the mirror in the front hall before going out the door. “I look like I’ve been drug through hell backwards,” she would say on and ordinary day. “Like death warmed over. Like something the cat puked up.” (103). The emergence of the images presented in the novel can help present a better understanding and in some cases, a connection to one of the

September 11, 2001 began as any ordinary day for Elvia Hogan as she left her home and headed for work. She recalled the sun shining and the sky a bright blue as she entered the counseling office at Hunter High School. As she approached her desk, she opened her computer to find the unbelievable image of an airplane in the top of one of the World Trade Center buildings. Phones were ringing, as the counselors began watching the news to follow what was happening when suddenly, a second plane flew into the neighboring tower.

Emotionally, I felt a sense of surrealism. I felt sad. And at other parts I felt disgusted and sorry for the characters. I began to question everything in the book. O’Brien used imagery in a very powerful way. For example he writes, “The place was at peace. There were yellow butterflies. There was a breeze and a wide blue sky” (173). There were many other examples of the exceptional use

Throughout the novel, “102 Minutes” by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, a common tone is produced about the severity of the destruction of the World Trade Center. A neutral attitude is used when describing the events on the morning of September 11th. When narrating over the tragedies that took place, the authors use specific word choice and real-life examples to display the twin towers collapsing and the stress, fear, and panic being felt throughout Lower Manhattan. For example, Dwyer and Flynn write, “As easily as the roaring jet had knifed through the steel face of the tower, smoke now relentlessly, swiftly, seeped into the top of the building, finding paths around the concrete floors, emerging in billowing, ghastly clouds” (Dwyer and Flynn 37).

In his book, Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer uses several instances of imagery and foreshadowing to improve the audience’s understanding of key details and to keep the audience’s immediate attention. Imagery is mostly used in an artistic sense by most authors, but in Krakauer’s book, he finds a way to include logical appeals in his imagery while also satisfying the audience. Foreshadowing is used in a similar way, and the audience is satisfied through well-written comments and concluding paragraphs. Krakauer’s use of brief instances of imagery and foreshadowing are effective due to their pacifying effects on the audience.

Address the imagery in this novel—how effectively does the author paint pictures in your head? Give two or three vivid examples and explain.

Well, since the women is pregnant, it could be that her taste is as strong as it used to be and now everything does not taste the same. Shen uses liquorice in this passage probably to symbolize that it does not taste good. She can not enjoy herself and have a good time because everything taste dull. The male wants her to have a good time, but it is hard for the

While Oskar and Thomas’ missed communications effectively communicate to the reader the overwhelming and inexpressible nature of trauma, they do create limits to how and what Foer is able to communicate. This mimics the way trauma survivors often struggle to verbalize their grief. To overcome these limitations, Foer relies on meta-textual ruptures in the story. These take many forms. For example, when Oskar finds and tapes pictures into his “Stuff that Happened to Me” scrapbook the images also appear in the pages of the novel. The most memorable of these is the image of a man falling from the tower (59). Oskar clearly reacts emotionally to the image, hypothesizing several times throughout the novel that it might be his father falling to his death. Although the reader is unlikely to imagine a personal relation in the place of the blurry figure, most readers presented with such a graphic image is likely to respond viscerally to the photograph. In his paper “Why I am writing from where you are not”: Absence and presence in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, A. Todd Atchison argues that “The chaos of trauma suffered during the actual event is often too immediate for comprehension” (362). Just like a

The scene starts with people forming a crowd and the feeling of something unrealistic, “...something they couldn’t quite envision.”(Sway, 246). The people in the crowd awaiting for the band to come out. Lazar then goes in depth to describe the people in the crowd, “...jean jackets, floppy leather cowboy hats, mirrored shades… In their nakedness… they lay in their sleeping bags…”(Sway, 246), the reader begins to feel as if they are apart of the crowd. Lazar begins to construct a mental picture and a feeling of it being surreal. It seems to good to be true, until reality is brushed in. Lazar includes the cruel reality of the world. He adds what was happening around the crowd, The Mansons. Lazars use of imagery to pull the reader in and discovery the gruesome truth of what was actually happening in December 6. The imagery goes deep into the