His sentence: How could every person there have so much to say at the same time?
from The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
This is an interrogative sentence that is used to describe the crowd around an imaginary boxing ring.
My sentence: Why does the moon hang so low on such a great night?
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Sentence 2
His sentence: A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her.
from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
This sentence has polysyndeton as well as asyndeton, describing how the rumble from the attack seemed to be everywhere around her.
My sentence: The blood-stained battlefield was littered, scattered, strewn with the mutilated bodies of the fallen.
from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
This sentence has polysyndeton as well as asyndeton, describing how the rumble from the attack seemed to be everywhere around her.
My sentence: The blood-stained battlefield was littered, scattered, strewn with the mutilated bodies of the fallen.
Sentence 8
His sentence: Constant coldness.
from The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
This is an alliterated rhetoric fragment to describe and emphasis the symptoms of Max's sickness.
My sentence: Navy nightmares.
from The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
This is an alliterated rhetoric fragment to describe and emphasis the symptoms of Max's sickness.
My sentence: Navy nightmares.
Sentence 7
His sentence:Waxy yellows, cloud-spat blues. Murkey darknesses. \
from The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
This sentence uses rhetoric fragments to seperate the light and darkness of the world, and to explain the narrator's distractions.
My sentence: Beatiful angels, white wings. Gruesome demons.
from The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
This sentence uses rhetoric fragments to seperate the light and darkness of the world, and to explain the narrator's distractions.
My sentence: Beatiful angels, white wings. Gruesome demons.
Sentence 6
His sentence: I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable.
from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
This sentence uses alliteration and rhetoric fragments to better describe the narrator, Death.
My sentence: The night was silent. Sorrowful. Somber.
from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
This sentence uses alliteration and rhetoric fragments to better describe the narrator, Death.
My sentence: The night was silent. Sorrowful. Somber.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Sentence 5
His sentence: People were stomping their feet, clapping, whistling, chanting, "Boboresh! Boboresh!"
from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
This sentence uses polysyndeton to describe all of the ways that the crowd was cheering for Amir during the kite tournament.
My sentence: The wind was whipping, raging, howling, ripping through the dark night.
from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
This sentence uses polysyndeton to describe all of the ways that the crowd was cheering for Amir during the kite tournament.
My sentence: The wind was whipping, raging, howling, ripping through the dark night.
Sentence 4
His sentence: But this was my one chance to become someone who was looked at, not seen, listened to, not heard.
from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
This sentence uses asyndeton to describe the type of person that Amir will become in his father's eyes if he wins the kite tournament.
My sentence: Now it was my turn to become the hunter, not hunted, predator, not prey.
from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
This sentence uses asyndeton to describe the type of person that Amir will become in his father's eyes if he wins the kite tournament.
My sentence: Now it was my turn to become the hunter, not hunted, predator, not prey.
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