https://padlet.com/marjam8151/rb8w29hmebji Diction, Imagery, Details, Language, Syntax, en-us 2017-03-16 15:22:43 UTC 2017-03-18 14:02:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png marjam8151 https://padlet.com/marjam8151/rb8w29hmebji/wish/160568544      Gladwell's diction consists of using first person with an informal tone and excerpts from his resources. He does, but not too often, use slang. It is mostly present in the stories he tells. He enjoyed asking rhetorical questions to make us "think without thinking". Gladwell did use different language in the text. This was present in the first chapter when he talked about the artifact "It was known as a kouros" (page 3). The text can easily be viewed as abstract because Gladwell's focus was on the mind and unconscious decisions. However, his examples and stories he uses to support his opinions were often concrete, "...they would make a thirty minute play from scratch" (page 111). Lastly Gladwell did use specific terms that he made to refer to a specific reference. For example, "Thin Slicing" refers to the art of taking one single action (this usually occurs within the first two seconds of a situation) and analyzing it enough for it to make a first impression. The art of Thin Slicing is not easy for everyone; it takes a lot to be able to determine one's personality in two seconds. 
     The author was also able to create vivid imagery for his audience. He was able to grab our attention with it in his very first chapter; " ... his stylized, bearded hair was a lot like those of the kouros in the Metropolitan Museum in New York" (page 7).  Throughout his best seller used  imagery to not only make his audience think but also to appeal to their emotions. The detail he includes in his book was mainly focused in his stories, "Diallo is now inside the vestibule, up against the inner door of his building" (page 243). Gladwell left all the specific detail out of his main research, but he made sure to include it in the stories he told so the reader could get the full impact of it. 
     The text flew by quickly, but felt as though it took much longer due to the fact that the research was over different periods of time. The main idea was made clear by the author in the very beginning, " ...I hope by the end, I will convince you that making sense of ourselves and decisions requires us to value what happens in the blink of an eye than what happens over a period of time" (page 17). Gladwell mainly acknowledged his purpose in the beginning and the end; he left the rest to our own interpretation. ]]> 2017-03-16 15:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/marjam8151/rb8w29hmebji/wish/160568544