The book The Yearling, by: Marjorie Kinnan Rawling is an ingenious novel. Out of the thirteen Pulitzer Prizes given out each year, Marjorie Kinnan Rawling received one in 1939 for The Yearling. She achieved this award by using artful syntax, sensory detail, and figurative language in such a stellar way to showcase a family’s move to Florida and the struggles within it.
One of the three essential rhetorical devices that really tied the novel together was syntax. Even though it was not used as much in the story, it was used in a way that made everything that much more compelling. In paragraph four, three simple words make the whole thing come to a stop. “The fawn blinked.” (Rawling, 5). Not only does the paragraph end, but the reader also comes to an end. Another similar example of syntax is found in paragraph 11, “He stopped short.” (Rawling, 6). Again, a very powerful tool to cut the paragraph short in such a simple way. Going from a three word …show more content…
Syntax, figurative language, and sensory detail all work hand in hand in this novel. The description of what the wind was like, to how the palm-leaf looked and how the sun shined through it using figurative language is simply stunning. The syntax is so effortless, but yet a major part of making everything in the real world stop and the world in the novel pause too. Such genous work that is over seen. Sensory details is the vast majority of why Rawling won since the details were so perfervid throughout the few pages, like the ripples in the water in paragraph 16 were glistening, like the raindrops that appeared silver. Everything comes together making sense and every piece especially the figurative language, there was a meaning behind it. All of these parts come together quite astoundingly, and Rawling really did deserve to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her superb work in The Yearling and excels throughout the few
One of the three essential rhetorical devices that really tied the novel together was syntax. Even though it was not used as much in the story, it was used in a way that made everything that much more compelling. In paragraph four, three simple words make the whole thing come to a stop. “The fawn blinked.” (Rawling, 5). Not only does the paragraph end, but the reader also comes to an end. Another similar example of syntax is found in paragraph 11, “He stopped short.” (Rawling, 6). Again, a very powerful tool to cut the paragraph short in such a simple way. Going from a three word …show more content…
Syntax, figurative language, and sensory detail all work hand in hand in this novel. The description of what the wind was like, to how the palm-leaf looked and how the sun shined through it using figurative language is simply stunning. The syntax is so effortless, but yet a major part of making everything in the real world stop and the world in the novel pause too. Such genous work that is over seen. Sensory details is the vast majority of why Rawling won since the details were so perfervid throughout the few pages, like the ripples in the water in paragraph 16 were glistening, like the raindrops that appeared silver. Everything comes together making sense and every piece especially the figurative language, there was a meaning behind it. All of these parts come together quite astoundingly, and Rawling really did deserve to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her superb work in The Yearling and excels throughout the few