Practice Diction Analysis

The author of Catcher in the Rye shows a young and sarcastic dialect that displays his disrespect towards his parents but admiration for his brother. He portrays his inexperience with interacting with people through his uncensored language like “but they’re touchy as hell.” He has truncated elevation in his language, using phrases like “I got run-down,” and all the curse words he uses. He is quite severe in his tone with no musical qualities whatsoever.

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1. "Needly are of shine," "adding long glassy highlights," and " Towering volumes of marble and glass."
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2. As the passage goes on, the author uses phrases like "He's got a lot of dough" and "they're also touchy as hell" to make it feel as though the narrator is just another regular kid who is telling you a story.
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3.the matter of fact way Baker describes the lobby makes the reader sense that this is somewhere to not be impressed with, its an everyday occurrence.
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4.In the excerpt from The Mezzanine  by Nicholson Baker, he writes with an elevated refinement that is both dignified and straight-forward.
 http://morgan-happygolucky.blogspot.com/  (#1)


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The colloquial, coarse, and somewhat unmannerly diction in "Catcher in the Rye" exemplifies the narrator's down-to-earth, pissed off at the world personality. His defiant and thick skinned nature jumps out when he explains that all the background information about his life is just "David Copperfield kind of crap" that bores him. As the passage goes on, the author uses phrases like "He's got a lot of dough" and "they're also touchy as hell" to make it feel as though the narrator is just another regular kid who is telling you a story. The terse and all together informal nature of the narrator echoes through the entire passage in this excerpt from "Catcher in the Rye."
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Pages: 150

Total: 150

1. Fittingly, the first page of this chapter is written with extremely lowbrow vulgarities.

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2. The expressive adjectives such as "endless," "gnashing," "bitter," "hobbled," "pinewood,"  "oblique" portrays a lustrous description and creates an experience of the dark mood of the passage.

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3. Some predictable repetition of words occurs, creating neither a harsh, coarse sound, nor a melodious one.

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4. McCarthy creates pictures in the mind by similes, metaphors and poetic devices; while Gaiman is very common and edgeless when describing things.

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5. Jenny's harsh writing style portrays a depressing, dull mood that makes the story seem realistic.

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Observations

        Graceling is the first book I analyzed. Kristin Cashore uses no modern language which makes it sort of harsh sounding but not completely. The low elevation of the book makes it fit, like it was really written about the characters at the time. It is blunt and straight forward. What you read is what it means, meaning there really isn't a connotaion. In Flags of Our Fathers there is sort of a rythym to it unlike Graceling. It has more of a more sophisticated elevation to it. It's still not very high, it is probably around the middle. Like Graceling though, it doesn't really have a connotaion. The Hours by Michael Cunningham has very regal writting style. It has a flow to it the the other two do'nt really have. It has very elegant phrases and high elevation.

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I've noticed my books have had some type of supernatural element to them. For all the Percy Jackson books and the Lost Hero, they involve Roman and Greek gods such as Zues and Poseidon. In the book Graceling, there are the individuals who are "graced" or have strong powers such as fighting or swimming, and even mind reading. I like those types of books because they aren't the normal, they take me out of this world and into a new one. A world where gods and monster are real. A world where people can have super powers. In the future I hope to get out of my comfort zone and read books that will challenge my intelligence. Although I enjoy these books very much and i can actually focus on them, I need to broaden my horizon.