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Throughout the passage, Katherine Anne Porter creates a story using figurative language, imagery, and dialogue to develop some of the characters emotions that are portrayed. All of these emotions the characters are feeling helps the reader understand more of the story and can aid in the knowledge of what is taking place.

Describing the Okefenokee Swamp are two very different passages. Both passages contain interesting ideas. However, one passage seems more statistical than the other. For example, passage 1 describes how big the entire place is. It basically gives you an overview of the entire place not just the swamp itself. Passage 2 describes exactly what is in the swamp. For example sentence 1 says, “Vast and primeval, unfathomable, unconquerable, bastion of cottonmouth, rattlesnake and leech, mother of vegetation, father of mosquito, soul of silt, the Okefenokee is the swamp archetypal, the swamp of legend, of racial memory, of Hollywood.” Yet, while describing what’s in the swamp area, the author gives off a feeling of suspense and then later in in the

Paragraph II: In the first section (paragraph one) Paul Bogard talks about the darkness he once knew on a Minnesota lake as a child. The dominant rhetorical device used by Bogard in this section is an appeal to the reader’s emotions. The language that Bogard uses such as “smoky trails”, “sugary

This is done by the type of diction he chooses. For example, “Marched them through a wet twilight”. In this phrase he uses the words “wet twilight” to emphasize the haunting tone. Since these words are not generally paired together, it does give off more of an eerie feeling. Another example of this haunting tone is the phrase “remember Nancy’s teddy bear staring.”

The swamp’s characterization carries density and weight, referring to life’s repeating rhythm that seems perpetual. The pressure of the “endless, wet thick cosmos,” prevents progression through the passage, as the heavy words slow the pace of interpretation. Oliver considers density in the opening lines to deliberately present life’s slow and repetitive movement.

In the story “ The Jungle” paragraph 2 the author described the smell of Chicago as \"rancid.\" Which means it was an very anxiousness smell that they didn't like and i think the author was surprised because they were expecting something else other than that. In the second to last paragraph that author said the sky look \" pall.\" Which means like it is very dark as if something was covering the sky and I also believe that the author was not expecting that either because of how the paragraph what structured. The author described the scenery as nasty,\"pall,\"and \"rancid.\" Those two words if you know what they mean should tell you that the author really didn't like the place because of what he saw and smelled.

Stevenson suggests the sense of fear and cultural anxieties of late Victorian England through depiction of the unreal city, in particular, fog in the novella. "The fog has gripped London", and it "swirls" and "eddies through the gloomy neighborhoods", describing them seem "like a district of some city in a nightmare." Stevenson shape an eerie aura through portrayals of the "great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven ... here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown ... and here ... a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths." The haggard and swirling fog and somber hues combine to form a murkiness that displays

Throughout the book the author writes the story from Libby’s and Jack’s point of view. Niven writes the book as though Libby is writing in her diary and then in the next chapter Jack is writing in his diary. The author also uses flashbacks in the story. We get a deeper understanding of the story and why things are happening in it because we can see that in the past all of these events lead up to this event. Another way the the author uses craft is how she uses figurative language to also add deeper meaning to the story. The author uses craft to make the story much more interesting to read. If there was no figurative language in the books it would not have gotten the ratings it did or be the book that no one wants to put

By using literal language the author can convey the mood and setting in the story so that the readers can enjoy and visualize the story

Mark Twain once said, “A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.” Figurative language and descriptive adjectives can help show what the character is feeling, acting, and explain what they look like. In the book “The Pigman” by Paul Zindel he uses figurative language and descriptive adjectives to develop the characters, setting, and mood. In “The Pigman” the author uses figurative language to develop the mood and emphasize how the characters look and act.

Conversely, some writers have a rare style of writing that the reader may find it difficult to understand the premise of the writer (Kim,166). For example, Cha starts the book on an unpromising note that can repel a reader especially when they find it uninteresting. For example, the use of foreign languages in a single setting can only attract multilingual people since they can comprehend the information that the author wants to pass. In this context, the author uses French language in a form of writing that can be understood as dictation (Cha, 1). In some instances, she mentions groans and bared noises that can be equated to a character speaking. Evidently, the author spells out Inverted commas and full stops and provides translation to English subsequently. At some point, there is direct translation or mistranslation in distinct paragraphs, and this is of assistance to the reader as they can recollect the information to grasp the

The fog is the motif that represents the memory of the author, an expression of guilt and culpability. "He was part of the fog" The first impression the author has towards the Vietnam soldier. The fog is misty and he cannot see the man clearly. He does't know the man or hasn't seen his face, but he kills the man under stress. It isn't until the dead man dropped to the floor with a star hole in the eyes that the author feels fear and guilt. Although his comrade keeps on comforting him, his culpability left an utterly indelible mark in his mind. In reality, after the war, every time the author thinks or sees a fog, he relates to the war and brings back the painful memory. Fog triggers his memory and hinders his feeling. Furthermore, fog has another hidden meaning, this is a usage of the ambiguity technique. The author is trying to bring out uncertainty with the fog. It's opaque, and may not be seen through. And just like the situation the author is facing, to kill or not to kill, uncertainty rises, it is a dilemma. Tim O'Brien is stuck between choices, in doubt whether he should tell the incident to his daughter, whether he should kill the man or not, the contradiction makes him feel unbearably guilty. This is what the author intends to accentuate: war should be discouraged, it is the cause of disaster. The author strongly opposes to war as it only stirs up painful memories and death.

Another writing style he uses is imagery. An example of imagery in the Lightning Thief is, “The landscape was dotted with buildings that looked like ancient Greek architecture—an open air pavilion, an amphitheater, a circular arena—except that they all looked brand new, their white marble columns sparkling in the sun. In a nearby sandpit, a dozen high-school aged kids and satyrs played volleyball. Canoes glided across a small lake. Kids in bright orange T-shirts like Grover’s were chasing each other around a cluster of cabins nestled in the woods” (Chapter 5, pg. 67)

Why do the words that authors use in their writing help set the overall atmosphere of the story? In the story, "What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything," a young boy named Willie and his cautious mother, who were abandoned by their father, come across a beggar, and Willie grows curious of his character, thus leading him to question him. After a series of encounters, Willie learns that the homeless man was not what he seemed, but a man of wisdom. In the story, “Dark They Were, And Golden Eyed” by Ray Bradbury, a party of humans arrive in Mars and try to build their new lives there after an apocalypse on the Earth. One of the humans, Harry Bittering, is skeptical about Mars and how living there may not be the best idea. In both “Dark They Were,

The speaker also chooses her diction precisely, so that there is clear contribution to the overall idea that the poem is indeed about the quest for change and longing from escape from the swamp. Two very different forms of description are used to represent this source of dread: once by the simple name, swamp, and