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"And of course but these advantages were nothing other than the once-lost and now-appreciated advantages of good old Bell-era blind aural-only telephoning, with its 6 and (6^2) pinholes.

The sentence structure and word choice make this sentence

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'Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.' During this time, many people struggled greatly due to the Great Depression; they worked hard and were tired.

The author is using personification to tell that the town is "tired" which it is really not. The author is giving human-like characteristics.

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Abby looked at him, smiling her best smile, and said, "you could make a throw like that with your eyes closed, Brady." This is an example of simile and the author  is describing how good Brady is in football.

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"They were gorgeous, coming out of every shade of Her---the purple of a patch of coral that human eyes had never passed, the green of kelp growing toward the light, the gold of burning sand at sunrise..."

The author uses very descriptive language to describe dresses.

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Jack and Jill went up The Hill
To kill, to kill, to kill.
The author is trying to make you understand how crazy the two characters are.

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"Baley caught words behind him. '... take them apart. Nut by nut. Split them down the seams slowlike ...' And someone else laughed."
This strong word choice uses graphic language to make you imagine the horrific image of a robot being slowly ripped apart.

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"Darren rested his hand on my shoulder. 'It'll be all right, Alex. The phones will probably be back up tomorrow, and we'll get your folks and the insurance company on the line. A year from now, the house will be as good as new, and you'll be cracking jokes about this.' I nodded wearily and straightened up, Darren's hand still a comfortable weight on my shoulder. Then the explosions started."

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"Darren rested his hand on my shoulder. 'It'll be all right, Alex. The phones will probably be back up tomorrow, and we'll get your folks and the insurance company on the line. A year from now, the house will be as good as new, and you'll be cracking jokes about this.' I nodded wearily and straightened up, Darren's hand still a comfortable weight on my shoulder. Then the explosions started."

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From Ashfall. It humors me how the situation went from bad to better and hopeful, and then it just plummets as things get way worse.

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"My avatar was buffed to the eyeballs and armed to the teeth."
Awesome use of figurative language.

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The Nest
"She could feel the whiskey loosening her limbs, taking the edge off her nerves"
This example of figurative language helps add flair to the novel.

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By using such odd describing words it made me realize how ridicules he looked.

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"'Well' The woman registered shock. 'Maybe you think you can talk to me like I was dirt. Maybe it's time the guv'min' realized robots ain't the only things on Earth. I'm a hard working woman and I've got rights.'"
This quote demonstrates word choice. By making a character speak with improper grammar, the author is able to both make the writing more interesting to read, but also give some characterization to an otherwise bland character.

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"'you seem persistently trying to confuse me with someone who merely hangs out a shingle with the word conversation on it, and this operation with a fly-by-night one strung together with chewing gum and twine.'"
The author uses word choic
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I breath the close air and stare into the empty darkness and my insides squeeze tighter and tighter, I cant breath anymore. I cant breath.
The strong word choice provides a vivid picture for the reader in their head

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The next few hours were, well, how to describe it? Ask someone to lock you in a box with no light, and then have them beat on it with a tree limb to make a hideous booming sound. Do that for hours, and if you're still not crazy, you'll know how we felt.
The quote really gives the reader a good image of what the person was in, it shows how awful he felt, and had the reader feeling something for him. It  also gave the reader an image of how awful something like a disaster would be.

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The Unlikely Hero Of Room 13B

"Church doors, those beautiful, blessed bronze doors..."
This uses imagery and elipsis.

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"He fumbled in his pocket, a receptacle that contained anything that Dodger could punch into it."
The author helps the reader in understanding Dodgers personality. The fact that his pocket has "anything Dodger could punch into it" shows that the main character is probably disorganized and messy.

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"Because he was chocking me to death" This is an example of hyperbole because he is not actually choking to death. It helps show that the bully was choking him really hard.

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Half Lives
"'you looked like you were being attacked by butterflies with these pieces flapping as you ran.'"
This writer's craft helps you picture an image in your head.

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"I was Faking Faith"

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"But over time, it slid beneath my textbooks and notebooks and I forgot all about it. Till now."
The use of a long sentence and then a short sentence shows drama in the text. Also, the sentence "till now." creates suspense for readers.

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"He looked like a hallucinating ballerina in boxer shorts, but the blemmyae politely got out of his way."

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Shock protects me from panic, at first, and then I breathe the close air and stare into the empty darkness and my insides squeeze tighter and tighter. I cant breathe anymore. I cant breathe.

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"I ran to the back door and glanced through the window. Our neighbor from across the street, Darren, was outside. I twisted the lock and threw the door open. 'Thank god,' he said. 'Are you okay, Alex?' I took a few steps into the yard and stood with my hands on my knees, gulping the fresh air. It tasted sweet after the smoke-drenches dust I'd been breathing. 'You look like three-day-old dog crap. You okay?' Darren repeated. I looked down at myself. Three-day-old dog crap was way to kind. Sweat had drenched my T-shirt and jeans, mixing with plaster dust, insulation, and smoke to form a vile gray-white sludge that coated my body. Somewhere along the way, I'd cut my palm without even feeling it."

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"I ran to the back door and glanced through the window. Our neighbor from across the street, Darren, was outside. I twisted the lock and threw the door open. 'Thank god,' he said. 'Are you okay, Alex?' I took a few steps into the yard and stood with my hands on my knees, gulping the fresh air. It tasted sweet after the smoke-drenches dust I'd been breathing. 'You look like three-day-old dog crap. You okay?' Darren repeated. I looked down at myself. Three-day-old dog crap was way to kind. Sweat had drenched my T-shirt and jeans, mixing with plaster dust, insulation, and smoke to form a vile gray-white sludge that coated my body. Somewhere along the way, I'd cut my palm without even feeling it."

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From Ashfall. I liked the extra detail and dialogue that helped me picture the situation.

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"Surrounded by the thick coat, he looks like a stuffed olive."

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"My back hit the wall on the far side of the room, and my desk slid across the room towards me."
Vivid verbs

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"Look at you, Dana chortled from behind, red as a tomato!" This is an example of imagery because the author describes his face and makes it very easy to imagine.

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"I had to pee. I couldn't undo my pants. I really really had to pee.
I pissed myself".

These small sentences show that he really had the urge to do it.

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The Nest
"'I'm curious," he said, "is telling someone to relax ever helpful? It's like saying 'breathe' to someone who is hyperventilating or 'swallow' to a person who's choking. It's a completely useless admonition.'"
This smug dialogue is something that could teach a person more about a characte

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Trials of Apollo-- The Dark Prophecy

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"Don't worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I've had a lot of practice."
This is dialogue it helps the reader directly understand what the character is thinking

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Black Chalk

"The trees are singing to me."

This is personification and it is good because it gives a more descriptive detail of the situation.

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"it just makes you feel guiltier."
The author hasn't said what the character is guilty about yet, so its using a bit of foreshadowing to keep the reader interested.

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Jack and Jill came to The Hill
To right another error.
To make it short
Her news report
Was filled with her own terror.

This one also rhymes and the tone is kind of childish and dark

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"Her legs is so spindly, she look like she done growed em last week"

This is a good example of using dialect in writing. This shows the reader how the person talks, which reveals a lot about their character.

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"Then I would unlock and open the inner door and receive my goods. Capitalism would inch forward, without my actually having to interact face-to-face with another human being. Which was exactly how I preferred it, thank you."
I love this, its hilarious. It establishes tone and shows the character's true colors at the same time.

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"With the wind cutting into my face, it feels as if I'm being sling-shot out of a jet."

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"Refreshingly real and honest."

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"But now the sun was shining, and some of the lads and lasses were drinking outside the Gunner's Daughter, sitting on the old barrels, bundles of ropes, hopeless piles of rotting wood, and all the other debris of the riverside."
The author describes the scene of the bar, both helping the reader imagine the Gunner's Daughter but also how poor the area surrounding it must be.

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The Unlikely Hero Of Room 13B

"A dragon lives forever but not so little boys. Painted wings and la, la ,la..."
The author is giving us a message trough this quote so that we have a better understanding.

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"Yes, we were cheesy. And I'm sorry if this episode's making you sick. If it helps, it's almost too sweet for me. But Monet's truly filled whatever void needed filling at the time. For all of us. But don't worry...it didn't last."
The way that she records her thoughts with so much detail can help you realize the tone. Also the ellipses creates the pause which also helps with tone.

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"It's nice out tonight. You couldn't pick a better evening to go and get yourself lost. I mean, look at that moon. Perfect night for getting lost, don't you think?"

Dialogue to help you understand the scene better.

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"dear Amelia,"
The author writes to people who have passed, showing who is important/ an inspiration to the character/her sister.

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A guy (or girl, it was impossible to tell) sat in there, head leaning lifelessly against the steering wheel. Ash had blown into the car, mummifying him. I turned away quickly, feeling a little ill, even though really there was nothing particularly scary about the corpse.
That quote really will do a lot, it makes you feel awful for someone that didn't have to do anything with the story. The writer has such great word choice that she makes you feel like that, and would give you a great image of what the guy would have looked like.

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The Five Stages Of Andrew Brawley
"I shove the stack of files, flinging them with all my strength. Papers sail into the air and arc back down, littering the chairs and the floor. My blood rushes in my ears, and adrenaline pumps in my veins, and I feel good. Powerful. I push the computer monitor to the floor, watching the glass pieces shatter and spill over the carpet. Rage takes hold, and I tear her drawers from the desk, raining pencils and pens and coins all around."

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Black Chalk

"Despite Dee dancing"

This is alliteration it is good so when you say it the words you say will stick in your head

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“Because you fight it out, and stumble, and write bad poetry, and pick yourself up again, and at the end, hopefully, someday you''re sitting with your kid on her bedroom floor, talking about how you screwed everything up too.”

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"you seem persistently

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13 Reasons Why
"Do not take me for granted... again" vivid verbs- granted in this quote is a very nice word to use especially because of the tone of the book

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The War in 2020
"There seemed to be no way to predict who would cower and try to flee, or who would risk his life to serve the common good.
I like how it's basically talking about how people step forward in time of need.

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"The din of the crowd fades behind us. It's just me and my dogs and the sunbeams breaking through the spruce branches stretching across the trail like cold fingers."
The author uses figurative  language for detail.

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"Below the initials, pressed into the crease between the  pages, someone stuck an upside down photograph. I pull it out, flip it over, and turn it right-side up."
The advantage to using imagery like this makes your readers imagine the text clear in their heads clearly.

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Jack and Jill came to The Hill
Your mistress had no clue, Sir.
She was a pawn
But now she's gone
And soon we'll get to you, Sir.

I like the quote because it's kind of rhymes.

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The Nest
"Sitting at a table near the soaring windows on the upper level of the hotel's massive lobby (which was, she had to admit, completely unwelcoming - too big and gray and modern, some awful kind of sculpture made of steel tubing lurked overhead, she could hear Jack's and Bea's pointed ridicule in absentia; she was relieved they weren't there), Melody ordered the least expensive glass of white wine (twelve dollars, more than she would spend on an entire bottle at home) and hoped the bartender had a generous pour.
This imagery can be used in many different types of writing to make it more interesting.

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The Trials of Apollo--The Dark Prophecy

"He looked like a hallucinating ballerina in boxer shorts, but the blemmyae politely got out of his way.
'Lo!' I shouted. 'From the Oracle of Dodona we received a prophecy--a limerick most terrible!'
'Terrible!

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Black Chalk

"I must ready myself."

This is repletion in my book and it ingrains it in the readers head.

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"...some sort of a black pendant with a thick vein of gold running through it."

I like how it is so descriptive in describing this object.

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"I heard a cracking noise, like the hackberry tree in our backyard like when dad cut it down last year but louder."
I like not knowing what will happen next.
deluge

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"She brandished a five-foot-long spear, its barbed metal tip flickering with red light. Her siblings had only the standard issue bronze swords- not that that made me feel any better." Humor mixed with good descriptions at its finest.

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Under the oppressive smell of sulfur, I caught a hint of my mom, a faint whiff of the Light Blue perfume we bought her every year for Mother's Day.
The quote really gives  good image of what he was smelling, and put the reader in his place, like they were really smelling what he was. The writer used really good imagery in the quote, and word choice.

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"So, that's burning in a nutshell: energize some oxygen, let it attack some fuel, and stand back."
This sentence uses very interesting punctuation that keeps the sentence flowing.

"As nitrous oxide . . . appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with great advantage during surgical operations." - Humphry Davy
The author quoted Davy to emphasize how old ideas are being used today

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The Unlikely  Hero Of Room 13B

"To all those who think they are alone."

This quote helps the book because it is overall helping you get a better understanding of what the book is about.

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"The wind is bitter and keeps flopping unmoored sections of the NASA blanket over parts of the engineer's body."

The author used specific and descriptive language.

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"The drains and sewers were over flowing, throwing up--regurgitating as it were--the debris of muck, slime, and filth..."
The author describes the unsanitary streets in the underbelly of London so that the reader understands the poor living conditions of the main character.

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"I'd seen those stupid movies where the hero gets tossed around like a rag doll and then springs up, unhurt and ready to fight off the bad guys. If I were the star in one of those, I suppose I would have jumped up, thrown the desk aside, and leapt to battle whatever malevolent god has struck my house. I hate to disappoint, but I just lay there, curled in a ball, shaking in pure terror."

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"I'd seen those stupid movies where the hero gets tossed around like a rag doll and then springs up, unhurt and ready to fight off the bad guys. If I were the star in one of those, I suppose I would have jumped up, thrown the desk aside, and leapt to battle whatever malevolent god has struck my house. I hate to disappoint, but I just lay there, curled in a ball, shaking in pure terror."

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From Ashfall. I like the reality and mindset the author is in on this, how he is trying to make the story as real as possible.

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Half Lives
"Then it hit me. I mean really hit me. I was falling, drowning, and being electrocuted all at once. My mind flashed to every apocalyptic movie I'd ever seen---world wars, alien attacks, explosions, floods, tsunamis, bombs, plagues."
This type of writer's craft helps because the short sentences help give a tone for the scene.

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"Sky made me feel clean, a first-snow kind of clean that covered everything."
The author is really specific when describing, so you know almost exactly as the main character is feeling.

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"I think, I have to get out.
I feel its strength ringing inside me like the toll of a bell, so I think it again. I have to get out.
I have to get out. Its a chant now, a mantra the only thing I have left to hold on to."
This is repetition and it is good because it intrigues the reader and it reinforces the information in the readers head.

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The Compound
"She smelled of lilacs. As I sobbed, she stroked my hair. Like always, Mom's touch was comforting and warm. Even that night, that heinous night, her touch helped. Our cries sounded over the crackling of the logs. After a long while, sobs faded to sniffs and shudders, waning from fresh grief into leftovers."

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I started going every day for hours, no matter what.I ran up while lightning shot across the sky and thunder rumbled down, the rocks,dirt and rails ties slick with huge rain.
This particular excerpt from the book" Stupid Fast" is very graphic and the picture perfectly zooms into my mind. This is a very convenient example for "imagery"

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"I didn't have to feign fear; I felt my skin grow pale, the color drain from my face."
There are scared types of words, skin grow pale, These show the character is scared and something is wrong.

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"Think of the inefficiency of a hundred thousand houses for a hundred thousand families as compared with a hundred-thousand-unit-section."
This is repetition that strikes contrast by having a hundred thousand repeatedly called inefficient, something most people wouldn't do.

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"What you noticed first about Constantine, besides her tallness, were her eyes. They were light brown, strikingly honey-colored against her dark skin. I've never seen light brown eyes on a colored person. In fact, the shades of brown on Constantine were endless. Her elbows were absolutely black, with a dry white dust on them in the winter. The skin on her arms and neck and face was a dark ebony. The palms of her hands were an orangey-tan and that made me wonder if the soles of her feet were too"

This quote is a great example of imagery. I can picture exactly how Constantine looks through this description.

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"Suddenly there was grass under his feet again-----the greenest, softest grass the Roy has ever seen. The em dash represents a pause to make you think about what is being said and is followed by descriptive words that describe the grass."