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My Writing Style Analysis

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The tone of my writing has definitely changed over my years of being a writer. Although reading has always been my strong subject, I’ve come to love writing. I would describe my standard tone as a mix of using figurative language techniques such as imagery and having a sort of sarcastic diction. I love using figurative language techniques such as imagery because I feel like it makes reading more vivid to the reader. I like to ready books by authors that use imagery because it makes the book like a movie in my mind. My use of imagery has strengthened since the beginning of the tri. An example from the beginning of first tri would be in the narrative essay “Dream Boy?” In this I was describing my room after a horrible breakup I had had my sophomore year. “I …show more content…

A tone that can go along with imagery is sarcasm. I’m a very sarcastic person when you get to know me, and I like to make a joke out of things. I feel as if this shines through my writing also. An example of when I had a sarcastic tone was in the “Analysis of the Dating Process” discussing the steps it takes for a girl to get ready for a date. “Everything usually works for me. Step one: Moisturizer, step two: primer, step three: foundation, step four: concealer, step five: powder, step six: contour, step seven: eyeshadow, step eight: eyeliner, step nine: mascaras, step ten: highlight, step eleven: lipstick, step twelve: setting spray. Just to name a few.” Saying how there was only a few after twelve steps that usually takes me about an hour to an hour and a half to do was being sarcastic. Which helped to make the piece funny because of how it was ironic. Also in “Pet Peeve Analysis” using sarcasm helps to make the piece more uplifting when the topic is about something that personally annoys me. In the example “Get in car. Turn on. Prepare for whatever may soon happen. One, two, three in. One, two, three

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One of the most vivid examples of imagery Marquart uses is when describing the roads of North Dakota. She paints the picture of “a road so lonely, treeless, and devoid of rises and curves in places that it will feel like one long-held pedal steel guitar note” (Marquart). Her diction creates imagery almost tangible to the reader. Therefore, readers are able to immerse themselves in how it would feel to live in the Midwest. Another fitting example of imagery is when Marquart describes a relatable pop culture narrative.

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Imagery can feasibly be known as used quite a bit in Jeanne DuPrau’s books. This tool helps give the author a technique to send an image into the mind of the reader. Such an example of this would have been in The City of Sparks in the quote “It was a bigger flame than Lina had ever seen, like a terrible orange hand, reaching up and down.” You can see Duprau uses imagery incredibly well. She describes the fire as a “terrible orange hand” and also describing it as an insanely big flame never seen before.

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One example of imagery is, “He pulled the door wider to let her see. The cold wind blew and the thin rain fell upon the soil and the figure stood looking at them with distant eyes. The old women held the doorway” (Bradbury Page 159.) In this quote, the figurative language that’s used helps the reader think and imagine the scene taking place, a little better than just saying “they both stared at the figure.” The vivid details such as “the cold wind blew” and “the thin rain fell upon the soil” helped the true feeling of this scene pop out.

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One example of tone from The Odyssey is when Odysseus said, “They wept and wailed, and shed great floods of tears. But all that grieving could do no good.” (Homer, 201-203 10). Another example of tone was when Ulysses said, "Well, as soon as we get ourselves cleaned up and we get a little smellum in our hair, why, we're gonna feel 100% better about ourselves and about life in general." (Martin, Oh, Brother…).

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We see the use of imagery when the announcer for the radio station is reporting the Olympic race (Hillenbrand 34). The imagery shown there is a great representation of how to show people what is happening without being there to witness it. Putting the picture in your mind of the Olympics, the kids running to get what they all have ever wanted: the gold medal. Another example of imagery is “A Dead Body Breathing” (Hillenbrand 185). This is a great example showing how Louie is alive and breathing but he should be dead.

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For example, Twain creates humor by using hyperboles and understatement, while Douglass uses no emotional words or word choice. Twain used a lighthearted yet semi-serious tone in his writing to give the best description of the story as possible. “[...] instantly a negro drayman, famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, "S-t-e-a-mboat a-comin'!" and the scene changes!” This shows the semi-serious tone of Twain’s text.

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