Everyone possesses a style while doing an activity whether it be walking, talking, writing, or just shooting a basketball. People get eminent for their sui generis styles for example; The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Dr. Seuss, and Michael Jordan. Authors have unique styles as well, The author of “Yellow Skies, Blue Trees?” by Joe Rogers uses a different combination of diction, syntax, and imagery to be informative about being colorblind in a witty way. His style manipulates an amalgamation of lingering and condensed sentences to validate his research and to hoodwink the reader.
The pioneering segment of Rogers style is diction, diction is the vocabulary within the context of an article or text. Rogers contributes a flare to his writing to make the text sound more intellectual than it deserves. A few paragons of this are “Total colorblindness is exceedingly rare. People who suffer from it usually have a host of other problems as well, including extreme sensitivity to light and poor visual acuity. Those of us with simple color-vision deficiency face more mundane problems” and “Because the most common form of colorblindness involves distinguishing red and green,
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The syntax is how the writer operates the sentence structures. Rogers own spin on the syntax is that Rogers will create outstretched sentences and then have a brief one following to emphasize laughter or knowledge. Specimens from the article that fanfare Rogers style is “Those of us with simple color-vision deficiency face more mundane problems: if I wear this shirt with these pants, will people stare? Or, worse, laugh?” and “ I assumed the living-room walls were some variation of a neutral white tone. A visitor told me they were, in fact, quite pink-that I was more or less living inside a big bottle of Pepto-Bismol, I call a painter who recommended something he called eggshell. I took his advice.” Roger drags on the sentence so the pun becomes greatly