Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Close-Reading Bingo

Common Weaknesses:

Weakness #2: Baker describes the escalators themselves that rise to his office, “They were the free-standing kind: a pair of integral sins swooping upward between the two floors they served without struts or piers to bear any intermediate weight.”  -The Lost Message of Words

Weakness #6: Comparing the black handrails, "like the radians of black luster," shows the way he is able to control his writing. -Back of the Napkin Blog

Weakness #2: He uses figurative language to describe a “steeper escalator of daylight, formed by the intersections of the lobby’s towering volumes of marble and glass, met by the real escalators just above the middle point.” -Contemplations

Bad Grammar: Salinger uses common words and even slang some slang like dough to try and communicate his story. -Chillin In The Nyle 

Best Overall Response:
The entire paragraph is good, but I was told to only pick a sentence... So this is it: "This unabashed overflow of foul language seems to suggest that he is trying to make up for his young age with his gratuitous choice of words in his attempt to be an adult." -The One Guy's Blog

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