The Coffee Shop Ap Language

Have you ever felt fully comfortable and like you fit into a place or maybe even a group of people? That's the way the author feels about coffee and coffee shops in this story. She feels like those are her people and uses certain details and language to help portray that feeling to the reader. The author uses language to help the reader understand the deeper meaning of coffee by including imagery and sensory details. Although the author uses a variety of things, imagery is the first thing we will be focusing on. Throughout the story, the author uses imagery in a variety of different places and paragraphs. An example of this in the text is in paragraph 6 when the text states, “Let's go back to that coffee shop you entered: you sit down in the cozy armchair your friend saved for you, cupping a steaming mug of coffee that Ben, the cute barista, poured for you.” This piece of imagery in the text allows the reader to know more about the coffee shop and how the author feels about it, which is that coffee is a culture, a community, and an experience.

Although they may seem similar to imagery, they provide powerful and memorable factors to a story that help the reader to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste the words. For instance at the end of paragraph 6, the passage says “You add a smidgen of milk, and watch the white and brown swirl together, creating your own little milky way - a galaxy in your cup. You take that first, blissful sip, and sink with a smile into the embrace of the armchair as the warm liquid travels down your esophagus. Your friend sips her tea, and launches into a story about her new part-town job.” This quote allows the reader to understand what the author is seeing, hearing, tasteing, and touching while knowing what the author is feeling, thinking, and doing. These in depth details help the reader create an image in their mind and in this sake know that coffee is more than a