Reading over your passage from Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, I immediately noticed his unique writing style and his immense use of dialogue imbedded within the details. From your essay, I was refreshed on different literary terms such as anaphora and polysyndeton. Even though I learned about these during AP Comp last year, this was a nice review, as these could easily end up on the AP Exam in May. However, your essay was different from other prose essays in the fact that instead of analyzing main themes in this passage, you chose to take a different route by analyzing his writing style and use to different literary terms more.
Generally, from my experience, essays that go this route are left incomplete because they do not relate the author’s use of a certain literary device back to the overall purpose of the passage. However, you do this very well. You relate the italics, dashes, anaphora, and polysyndeton back to Zooey, and you have strong quotations to support your claim. I feel that this essay could be improved by focusing roughly an equal portion to each of the literary devices mentioned to cohesively relate them all together. Besides this, this is an excellent analysis of Zooey and the passage accompanying it.
Nick, I wanted to start off by saying that those cookies are delicious. I think your presentation overall was really interesting and I am now very interested in reading other of J.D. Salinger's works. As I was reading the passage from Franny and Zooey I feel like you did a really good job at going in depth of how he uses different devices to create emphasis. I think you had a really good example of polysyndeton and how Salinger used this in his work. I remember you mentioned in your presentation that Salinger crafted dialogues so that it could sound naturally. From your PowerPoint I think it was so creative how your fake tweet said that his tweets were protected just like twitter would. This really personifies Salinger since you explained that he alienates himself so obviously he would protect his tweets.
Reading over your passage from Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, I immediately noticed his unique writing style and his immense use of dialogue imbedded within the details. From your essay, I was refreshed on different literary terms such as anaphora and polysyndeton. Even though I learned about these during AP Comp last year, this was a nice review, as these could easily end up on the AP Exam in May. However, your essay was different from other prose essays in the fact that instead of analyzing main themes in this passage, you chose to take a different route by analyzing his writing style and use to different literary terms more.
ReplyDeleteGenerally, from my experience, essays that go this route are left incomplete because they do not relate the author’s use of a certain literary device back to the overall purpose of the passage. However, you do this very well. You relate the italics, dashes, anaphora, and polysyndeton back to Zooey, and you have strong quotations to support your claim. I feel that this essay could be improved by focusing roughly an equal portion to each of the literary devices mentioned to cohesively relate them all together. Besides this, this is an excellent analysis of Zooey and the passage accompanying it.
Nick, I wanted to start off by saying that those cookies are delicious. I think your presentation overall was really interesting and I am now very interested in reading other of J.D. Salinger's works. As I was reading the passage from Franny and Zooey I feel like you did a really good job at going in depth of how he uses different devices to create emphasis. I think you had a really good example of polysyndeton and how Salinger used this in his work. I remember you mentioned in your presentation that Salinger crafted dialogues so that it could sound naturally. From your PowerPoint I think it was so creative how your fake tweet said that his tweets were protected just like twitter would. This really personifies Salinger since you explained that he alienates himself so obviously he would protect his tweets.
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