The Okefenokee Swamp
After analyzing the two passages, it is clear through distinctive writing style that the purpose of each piece is quite opposite. When juxtaposed, the diversity between each passage, regarding diction and use of rhetorical terms, reveal that as one is written to educate their reader, the second is designed to entertain the reader and divulge the truth of what lurks in the Okefenokee Swamp. Passage one is written solely for educational purposes, adopting a nuetral tone, arousing no emotional connection from the reader. The opening sentence gives us a glimpse of emotionless text which is yet to come, beginning with quantitative data of the “saucer-shaped” swamp. Throughout the first passage, the writer implements polysyndeton, …show more content…
The author opens with personification, stating the swamp is “unfathomable, unconquerable,” displaying that this piece is meant to bring pleasure to your mind. It is not just a location, it holds the “mother of vegetation, father of mosquito, soul of silt.” This is a legendary swamp which cannot be forgotten, it is one of the greats, like racial history or Hollywood. She practices extended syntax, along with asyndeton, in order to give infinite amounts of imagery and description. Opposition between the two passages hint that the location to which the two author’s describe are completely different. As the Okefenokee Swamp in the first paragraph is “bounded on the east” and “vegetation is dense,” this marshland “gives birth to two rivers” and the acres covered are “leaf-chocked... as sodden as a sponge.” This land does not contain “low, sandy ridges, wet grassy savannas, small islands,” instead it holds “muck, mud, slime, and ooze... things fester here, cook down, decompose, deliquesce.” As for the wildlife, they are “all variously equipped with beaks, talons, claws, teeth, stingers and fangs.... there are cooters and snappers... coon and gar.” The author ends this passage with a simile, sparking the readers imagination while strongly conveying her point that this swamp is “like some hellish
After analyzing the two passages, it is clear through distinctive writing style that the purpose of each piece is quite opposite. When juxtaposed, the diversity between each passage, regarding diction and use of rhetorical terms, reveal that as one is written to educate their reader, the second is designed to entertain the reader and divulge the truth of what lurks in the Okefenokee Swamp. Passage one is written solely for educational purposes, adopting a nuetral tone, arousing no emotional connection from the reader. The opening sentence gives us a glimpse of emotionless text which is yet to come, beginning with quantitative data of the “saucer-shaped” swamp. Throughout the first passage, the writer implements polysyndeton, …show more content…
The author opens with personification, stating the swamp is “unfathomable, unconquerable,” displaying that this piece is meant to bring pleasure to your mind. It is not just a location, it holds the “mother of vegetation, father of mosquito, soul of silt.” This is a legendary swamp which cannot be forgotten, it is one of the greats, like racial history or Hollywood. She practices extended syntax, along with asyndeton, in order to give infinite amounts of imagery and description. Opposition between the two passages hint that the location to which the two author’s describe are completely different. As the Okefenokee Swamp in the first paragraph is “bounded on the east” and “vegetation is dense,” this marshland “gives birth to two rivers” and the acres covered are “leaf-chocked... as sodden as a sponge.” This land does not contain “low, sandy ridges, wet grassy savannas, small islands,” instead it holds “muck, mud, slime, and ooze... things fester here, cook down, decompose, deliquesce.” As for the wildlife, they are “all variously equipped with beaks, talons, claws, teeth, stingers and fangs.... there are cooters and snappers... coon and gar.” The author ends this passage with a simile, sparking the readers imagination while strongly conveying her point that this swamp is “like some hellish