Practice Diction Analysis

The diction within this passage uses a precise, with intermediate writing literal and direct. the mood set by this is formal straight forward attitude while also giving a sense of laid back and just telling of the story.

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The Son Of Neptune

1. Uris uses a elegant diction and a melodious language.
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2. 1984 by George Orwell uses straightforward and exact diction, colloquial formality, and dull sound to create a harsh feeling for the reader, much like how Winston feels the chill of the bright cold day and the enormous eyes of the face watching him.
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3. Starting at the LOW side of the y axis, Nic Sheff bluntly uses vulgar language to remember a time he had with a previous girlfriend.
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I like the first because I like the use of melodious language just really paints a picture

Hymn For The Missing

Tried to walk together
But the night was growing dark
Thought you were beside me
But i reached and you were gone
Sometimes I hear you calling from some lost and distant shore
I hear you crying softly for the way it was before

Where are you now?
Are you lost?
Will I find you again?
Are you alone?
Are you afraid?
Are you searching for me?
Why did you go?
I had to stay
Now I'm reaching for you
Will you wait?
Will you wait?
Will I see you again?

You took it with you when you left
These scars are just a trace
Now it wanders lost and wounded
This heart that I misplaced

writing syle comparative

To compare the books The Son Of Neptune, Wolf Island, and Enders Game you have to look at how the authors write and form their stories. For starters the author of The Son Of Neptune, Rick Riordan, chooses to write in a more connotative way showing more emotions and feelings of the characters rather then simple motions and things they do. He chooses to let the character tell most of the story as if he or she were telling you about it. As he does this he likes to through in extra things the character is thinking with (things like putting parentheses). he also thoses in simple jokes about the situation if it seems to be getting kinda serious to help lighten the mood. This writing style is simular to the book Wolf island, by Darren Shan, he depicks the characters thoughts and emotions but rather then making it a happier book it shows the reality of death and mass choas and that through death and sacrifice light can prevail. He also defers another lesson that sometimes to kill a monster you must become on yourself. These ways of writing greatly defers from the denotative writing style of Olson Scott Card in Enders Game. Though he writes it from the point of view of one many character for the most part he only rarely gives out thoughts or emotions felt instead he tells the story by whats happening physically and leaves you sorta guessing on whats going on in an attempt to make you really think about whats happening and whats going to happen.

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Pgs 1- 338 Last Olympian
pgs 1- 259 Red Pyramid

passage of the week:
"I dont care if they ever know my name or what ive done, what ive sacrificed for them to live, to grow, do die in loving arms. They will never understand the pain my love ones will feel upon my absence in my fathers home. No man can say his memory will live forever, or that his life will even mean anything to you. All I know is that for that one moment when I choose to die for you, I will have no hesitation, no regret, no thought of selfish want or need. In that moment when you need me most i will be there, i will not have failed, i will not have gone quietly, i will not have stood by. I will have saved you... And that is all you'll ever know."

-words of the Fallen

Even Frosty faces mortality.

RavenMasters Secret

1. "To kill a monster sometimes you have to become one.""No, sometimes while trying to kill a monster you become one yourself my son."

I chose this quote as a winner not because it was necessarily the best but because it speaks to me a lot it elaborates the fine line a hero or soldier must walk in order to protect those he or she cares about.

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