“They were the free-standing kind: a pair of integral sins swooping upward between the two floors they served without struts or piers to bear any intermediate weight.”
http://thelostmessageofwords.blogspot.com/ 2. Discussing being vague
Baker draws a picture in your mind with his descriptions, "escalator of daylight" and "towering volumes."
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3. No Quotations in the whole post
The author describes his brother in very short concise sentences that tell enough about him but not too much.
http://fifteen-to-twentyseven.blogspot.com/2011/10/catcher-in-rye.html
4. Avoid the verb "use"
Baker describes the appearance of the lobby of his work as a place with “towering volumes of marble and glass,” and he also uses figurative language when he mentions the escalator “as the handrails slid on their tracks, like the radians of black luster.”
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5. The best example
In the first page of his novel Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger’s literal, blunt diction expresses Holden’s attitude towards his life and his surroundings. Holden describes his parents as “touchy as hell” and mentions his “lousy childhood.” The negative connotation of his words is straightforward, lending them to be easily trusted. Even when speaking of his brother, Holden says where D.B. lives “isn’t too far from this crumby place.” Though Holden is capable of positive emotions shown by his compassion for his brother, Holden has a negative outlook of his surroundings. http://freefifteen.blogspot.com/2011/10/practice-diction-analysis.html
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