Use Of Language Elements In 'Slam, Dunk, And Hook'

The authors use language elements to show their true identity to the reader through the text. It's important for the authors to use a specific type of language element in their text so that the reader can understand the author and to feel connected to them. Using language elements allows the author to almost speak to the reader through the screen/book. In the texts, “Slam, Dunk, and Hook,”"I'm Nobody! Who are you?”and “Abuela Invents the Zero”, The authors use specific writing techniques to reveal the identity of their characters. In “Slam, Dunk, & Hook '' by Yusef Komunyakaa, the author uses Figurative Language to convey his ideas to express his love for basketball. Komunyakaa uses a metaphor to compare himself, “ Muscles were a bright motor.

Nailed to our oak…” (21-23). Sunny boy is comparing himself to a bright motor and how he is “Double-Flashed.” He calls himself fast and swift once they start playing and practicing. Basketball is a way to cope with their everyday life to show off their true abilities and to show their hard work. Life for the team was pretty hard because they weren’t in a good environment. In Paragraph 1, He explains a little on how he felt once he put on his basketball sneakers, “Fast breaks. Layups. With Mercury's Insignia on our sneakers.” They don't actually have a Greek god in their shoes, it was an illusion on how they are almost immortal on the court and that they play their best. Basketball is almost like a replacement word because not only do they play hard in basketball but they also take what they know in basketball to the outside world. He already does not have a nice lifestyle so trying his hardest is his only way out. Language elements are another way to emphasize something/someone. It helps us understand more about the reader and their beliefs. It allows us to convey our own ideas and to connect and relate to the author. In the poem “I’m Nobody! Who are you?,” Emily Dickinson uses word choice to convey her

Dickinson calls herself a “Nobody” because she wants to be a closed book where she can have privacy, closed friendships, and not advertise herself like everyone else. She truly values her private life and she emphasizes, “How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog –” (5-6). She thinks of the outside world like “Somebodies'' which she uses a simile to compare them to frogs. She thinks of them as clones that just want to impress each other and to show off their popularity. She finds it uninteresting and dull, and just a waste of time. Language elements are another way to emphasize something/someone. It helps us understand more about the reader, their beliefs, to convey our own ideas. Dickinson explains to us that not always do we have to be like everyone else, but sometimes it's good to be yourself. In the story “Abuela Invents the Zero” Judith Ortiz Cofer uses word choice to convey her identity. Connie mistreats her grandmother and says rude stuff to her, “I realize to my horror that my grandmother is