Friday, October 21, 2011

Currently

Book: Dragon Rider
Pages: 163


Style Mapping Stuff:
The speaker describes the houses of Wall with casual, blunt language such as "square" and "old."
Finally, the diction of the first page in John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent is in the fourth quadrant. The characters speak in colloquial language, using words such as "silly," "darling chicken-flower," and "wop." 
This is also the same with the connotation because it is higher than journalistic, yet less than lyrical, making it almost invisible to the reader.
For example, "there is one road from Wall, a winding track rising sharply  up from the forest, where it is lined with rocks and small stones," conveys precise description that can easily be pictured.
This diction can be seen in phrases such as, “The house of Wall are square and old, built of grey stone, with dark slate roofs and high chimney.” 

These sentences were some of the best I looked at, thus I have placed them upon my post. 

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