Jamaica Kincaid
• Tone: fluid, gentle, smooth, delicate, soft yet sarcastic at places *
• Diction: elegant i.e., special jewel, England, colors, beautiful, bed of sky blue (ocean)
• Metadiscourse: understood then, our sense of reality, meaningful/less, though it looked
• Point of View: First Person, Past Tense
• Metaphor: England—special jewel,
• Narrative Distance: Very distinct almost, feels dreamy and the images are full of life similar to a sweet melody.
• Time: Calling back childhood memories, each paragraph starts with some time…
• Punctuation: dashes, commas, quotation marks,
• Syntax: long and flowy paragraphs, long sentences, a medley of topics associated with England.
David Sedaris
• Tone: playful, subtle, yet clever, jokingly,
• Diction: daring i.e., sink, attack, wild animal, forbidden, pathetic
• Metadiscourse: identified, claimed, instructed, detested, appear less, as though the…
• Point of View: First Person, Past Tense
• Contraction: I’d, I’ve, hadn’t, that’s, they’re,
• Narrative Distance: Very close almost watching as it unfolds
• Time: Paris, France very appropriate for the setting
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