In the short passage by Kierstin Koppel titled “Humanizing Morticians,” she uses a lot of figurative language to give a mortician a wonderful personality. Koppel’s first sentence even depicts a very vivid scene, “The corpse lies bare under a white sheet waiting to be dissected and reconstructed through a series of surgical procedures” (Koppel). This sentence does not only describe an interesting scene, but it also grabs the reader’s attention by explaining what the passage is going to be about.
Later, Koppel begins to explain her own point of view when it comes to being a mortician. Koppel sees the life of mortician as dark and gloomy; almost as if they were living in a Tim Burton film. She uses words like “horror-movie character,” “dismembered