This passage appears from Debra Marquart’s The Horizontal World, a memoir about growing up in North Dakota. Marquart’s tone begins as pensive, shifting towards a didactic tone and finally returning toward a pensive tone again as she describes the difficulty and struggle of the old Midwest history. Through the use of rhetorical techniques such as consonance, cumulative sentence structure and parenthesis, the speaker creates a vivid description of the Midwest, characterizing the upper Midwest, along with its history and some of its myths.
Marquet begins her pensive tone through the use of cumulative sentence structure in line 5, saying, “If your tires are in proper alignment, you'll only need to tap your steering wheel to keep your car …show more content…
This effectively aids the pensive tone as she thinks of solutions thought up by Richard Manning that will help the land. She then uses parentheses in line 65 writing, “--Eureka South Dakota, Eureka-- from the Greek word heureka, meaning “I have found it”--” In adding this, she does a double parentheses, first explaining where the train ends, “Eureka, South Dakota,” then again using parenthesis explaining the origins of the word Eureka. This also is done so she can imitate her train of thought as she writes, which establishes more with her pensive tone.
In conclusion, Debra Marquart’s The Horizontal World starts off with a pensive tone, shifting towards a didactic tone and finally returning towards a pensive tone again as she shares the difficulty and struggle of creating livable areas in the Midwest. Through the use of rhetorical techniques such as consonance, cumulative sentence structure and parenthesis, the speaker creates a vivid description of the Midwest, characterizing the upper Midwest, along with its history and some of its
Marquet begins her pensive tone through the use of cumulative sentence structure in line 5, saying, “If your tires are in proper alignment, you'll only need to tap your steering wheel to keep your car …show more content…
This effectively aids the pensive tone as she thinks of solutions thought up by Richard Manning that will help the land. She then uses parentheses in line 65 writing, “--Eureka South Dakota, Eureka-- from the Greek word heureka, meaning “I have found it”--” In adding this, she does a double parentheses, first explaining where the train ends, “Eureka, South Dakota,” then again using parenthesis explaining the origins of the word Eureka. This also is done so she can imitate her train of thought as she writes, which establishes more with her pensive tone.
In conclusion, Debra Marquart’s The Horizontal World starts off with a pensive tone, shifting towards a didactic tone and finally returning towards a pensive tone again as she shares the difficulty and struggle of creating livable areas in the Midwest. Through the use of rhetorical techniques such as consonance, cumulative sentence structure and parenthesis, the speaker creates a vivid description of the Midwest, characterizing the upper Midwest, along with its history and some of its