Through metaphorical diction, the background of the story's plot is conveyed through the in-congruencies between the physical and emotional atmospheres. ... The metaphors and descriptive diction widens the in-congruencies between the two atmospheres, which in return creates two highly different worlds. ...
A superficial reading of this memoir concludes that the work is beautifully, emotionally, and honestly written; even so, Didion's hollow tone in the memoir and the ornate and subdued dictions make the work looks rather like a reference book about grief rather than a memoir. ... Didion's ornate diction in The Year of Magical Thinking does not evoke the reader's empathy. ... As a final point, Didion strives to explain and understand grief as a thing and not an emotion, it shows in her style and diction in writing The Year of Magical Thinking. ...
Love is not a commodity. Love cannot stabilize on empty values with ecstatic pleasures. In a predominant relationship, the superior can cause the inferior resentment and empty passion. One can offer complete delectation, yet an interconnection cannot form without mutual feeling. A mutual relationshi...
Dear Editor, After analyzing Radley Balko's article, "What You Eat Is Your Business," I would like to give my explanation of why this article should be posted in the next edition of "The Shorthorn." Considering the rhetorical appeals of Balko's article, I believe that most readers of "The Shorthorn"...
The Essence of Man In William Wordsworth's sonnet "The World Is Too Much with Us," the author's techniques enhance a feeling of not only hopeless despondency, but also forlorn dejection. Wordsworth presents first humankind's existing botched relationship to nature and quickly follows with his nosta...
