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Patterns of Development
- narration
- description
- process analysis
- exemplification
- comparison and contrast
- classification and division
- definition
- cause and effect
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First person point of view
when a character refers to himself
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irony
the contrast between what is expected and what occurs
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situational irony
contrast that develops from the context of the actions or characterization
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Theme
an author's perspective or observation of the human condition. The characters, setting, and plot elements that serve as vehicles that assist in communicating the theme.
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SOAPSTone
- subject
- occasion
- audience
- purpose
- speaker
- tone
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An American Childhood
Annie has a catharsis, she learns that she is stronger than despair, she looks under the microscope for herself, nobody else.
Self-reliance is a quality that she develops, she can't get it from anything else
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The Writing Life
- The pine lumber inside is unfinished but out side it is: a metaphor of her writing life
- Cockpit: a metaphor everything you need to be successful needs to be at easy reach
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Sojourner
- The muck is essential to growth of mangroves.
- The mangroves are born from violence: verb choices
- Intimate Tone- she lets you know her insights as an equal.
- The mangroves represent a circle of life.
- The mangroves feed on death and grow: the full circle of life: Situational irony
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Intricacy
- This chapter is
- the climax of the Via Positiva half of the book in which Dillard marvels at the
- infinite intricacy of the universe and how that endlessly repeated, extravagant
- detail seems to reveal a creator. She
- begins with her goldfish which, though only worth a quarter, is a brilliant
- example of intricacy, down to the bloodcells whipping through its tail. She continues to the chloroplasts in the
- fishbowl. The detail gets her pretty
- worked up to the point that she marvels for a while, then discusses trying to
- take it all in: step back and absorb the entire world.
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