Barking Dog Figurative Language

It is becoming increasing difficult to ignore the lack of knowledge of grammar amongst the current generation of population which is very much evident by the content of text messages or emails they send. To illustrate this point, the author, Kitty Burns Florey in this essay, refers to the old style of diagramming, which was used to teach the rules of grammar and parts of speech, recalling her experience during her sixth grade. She explains the diagrams taking the example of Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog.

To date various methods have been developed and introduced to measure the style and effectiveness of writing of various authors because each of them has their own style and usage. For example, Kitty Burn Florey uses the method of figurative language throughout this essay. To show what I mean, she compares the horizontal line to the main road. Seemingly, it is an appropriate metaphor because the horizontal line used across the blackboard is the main platform on which the formation of sentences was taught, similar to the main road which is the main road for traveling. Furthermore, the author has used this metaphor throughout the essay comparing the diagram to various other things such as signboard, thorny rosebush, etc. …show more content…
In addition, the author has used parallelism and tricolor to emphasize the role of visualization. For example, she uses the phrases diagramming sentences, memorizing poems and adding long columns of figures without calculator to illustrate the meaning more imaginatively. Moreover, the use of phrase like ‘it swept through American public schools like the measles’, show the idea of art and perception entering into her love of diagramming. Probably, this helps her appreciate the architecture of a sentence by making the learning process livelier and less