2003 #3
Birds, something we see almost on a daily basis, one here and another one over there, but how many times in our lives will we be able to witness tens of thousands of birds flying over the sky. John James Audubon and Annie Dillard describes their own personal experiences with massive flocks of bird. Both author takes time to help the reader visualize the grandness and coordination of the birds. However with contrasting diction and syntax utilized by the authors, the two articles are able to have different effect on the audience after finished reading them. Audubon's approach toward describing the massive number of the pigeons mostly involved sensory details such as "meting flakes of snow", "buzz of wings", this allows the audience to have a visual picture inside of their mind of how many birds Audubon is seeing. On the other hand, Dillard used many figurative language in her writing, comparing the birds to "an unfurled oriflamme" an eye, or a million shook rugs, though more abstract, with clever metaphors and analogies, Dillard's writing still have the same effect on her audience. With two different methods, Audubon and Dillard described what they saw and successfully communicated with their audience.
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Audubon's diction is more phenomenal, with words and phrases such as "gigantic", "vast column", "extreme...aerial evolution", "immense legions". Taking a more literal approach when describing the birds, creating a thrilled and enlivened feeling within his audience. On the contrary, Dillard took a more sentimental approach, "difficulty", "unexpectedness", "dimming", words such as these that have a strong emotional denotation were heavy in her writing. This article had a different mood, a more stirring and poignant feeling will be created within the