Independent Reading #3
December 29th, 2006
Comment on your author’s style. What patterns in diction and structure do you see throughout the novel (not just a pattern that appears through one paragraph)? How does his/her style affect your reading of the novel? How does it compare to other works you have read that were published in different literary periods?
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in the book i’m reading by Maxine O’Callaghan, she uses diction in the why that it is suspenseful [ironic considering that its genre is a suspenseful novel, eh?] its great that its suspenseful but its horrible at the same time because of her structure and organization. she will write about one thing happening and then switch to something else that is happening at the same time, yet it leaves you hanging about whats going to happen. its makes me feel … arg! when i read it. however, i do like it compared to “older” books because more so in my generation and i can relate to it more so than the books that were written in the 1900s or something.
the author, Richard Preston, writes in a 3rd person point of view and can be very desrciptive and but he writes pretty simply and tells the reader what the reader needs to know to understand the whole picture or situation
Dan Brown will leave out details that people would normally include but he will use small things that seem meaningless to move the plot. He will use speech to convey to clues to his mystery. Instead of focus on details he focuses on speech. The contrast is ddifferent than normal writers