Strong/Poignant Word Image "And that's the only explanation I come up with when the question comes to mind, as it so frequently has throughout my life."
Rhetorical/Literacy Devices Simile: "I'd always been able to lock myself in a room for a couple of days, study like madman and jack up a dwindling grade at the eleventh hour." Anaphora: "I was contagion, after all. I was a destructive force. I was an injurer of men's brains."
This book is mind blowing. Story it self started to reach the climax. Gordon Rankin, the main character, started to express himself more and include himself in the story.
"And that's the only explanation I come up with when the question comes to mind, as it so frequently has throughout my life."
Vocabulary
Convulsive - volatile, dangerous
Penance - reparation for wrong.
Swath - dried grass
Rhetorical/Literacy Devices
Simile:
"I'd always been able to lock myself in a room for a couple of days, study like madman and jack up a dwindling grade at the eleventh hour."
Anaphora:
"I was contagion, after all. I was a destructive force. I was an injurer of men's brains."
This book is mind blowing. Story it self started to reach the climax. Gordon Rankin, the main character, started to express himself more and include himself in the story.