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Annie Proulx's Diction In The Shipping News

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Annie Proulx is an American novelist who has won many prestigious awards for her writing including The Pulitzer prize for fiction. Her writing is unique when compared to others because she writes in a very poetic way which makes the reader seem like they are reading a long poem. Her word choice or diction helps achieve this. Annie Proulx’s diction in The Shipping News is in the verge of poetry. She takes simple things and turns them poetic just by adding a few words or phrases. “But the children rushed Quoyle, gripped him as a falling man clutches the window ledge, as a stream of electric particles arcs a gap and completes a circuit” (Proulx 26). This is a perfect example of how Proulx can make an ordinary event seem like a much more personal
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