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Mother Nature Strikes Fear And Excitement - Paper

Mother Nature Strikes Fear And Excitement

Annie Dillard writes about the natural world and has won a Pulitzer Prize for her first book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Annie Dillard's style is very descriptive. Dillard uses similes to show her fear of the flood. She also uses diction to show her excitement about the flood. In "Flood", an excerpt from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard gives the impression that she is afraid, yet excited about the flood.
The tone of Dillard's essay is set by her use of similes to show her fear of the flood. She uses a simile to describe the flooded creek, "It looks like somebody else's creek that has usurped or eaten our creek and is roving frantically to escape, big and ugly, like a black ...

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of flood. "The flood has ripped away a wedge of concrete; the water hurls in an arch; It smashed under the bridge; It hurtles down … it lurches round the bend, filling the valley, flattening, mashing, pushed, wider and faster, till it fills my brain" (315). Dillard switches from the past tense to the present tense to show that she has become involved in the excitement of the flood. At first she says, "All it did was rain. It rained, and the creek started to rise (314). Then when she becomes excited she switches to the present tense. "Everything looks different; The water is over the bridge; Everything imaginable is zipping by (314-315). Dillard uses diction to show her excitement about the ...

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Added: 5/30/2004 05:54:12 PM
Category: English
Type: Free Paper
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