Friday, August 3, 2012
Ch 7: Syrup Post 1
Syrup's Literary term will be imagery. Vonnegut uses imagery a goodly amount and I have chosen a select passage that "evokes a picture of a person," in this case people. Vonnegut says, "The people who first got to the crash scene were young Austrian ski instructors from the famous ski resort below. They spoke to each other in German as they went from body to body. They wore black wind masks with two holes for their eyes and a red topknot. They looked like golliwogs, like white people pretending to be black for the laughs they could get," to describe the two people who saved him from the crash. He could have used one sentence (like I would) but he chose to use imagery to make the scene much better.
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Issac this is genius! Vonnegut could have only used one sentence (which would have been a lot easier) however; that is not Vonnegut's style. Also if Vonnegut had not been very descriptive then the imagery would not have been as crystal clear to the readers.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with the point of using more description to capture the reader through imagery. If he would have chosen to just put this entire idea into one sentence, it would not have been very easy to imagine.
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