Okefenokee Swamp Passage 1 And 2

The Okefenokee Swamp is a well-known marshland and wildlife refuge located in southeastern Georgia and northern Florida. Its prominence in the world of nature has led to a variety of different opinions and feelings from the people who have researched or visited it. Two particular articles, Passage 1 and Passage 2, written two years apart, paint clearly separate pictures of the famed swamp. Passage 1 admires the swap and uses the details included to impress nature lovers or potential visitors, while Passage 2 attempts to scare them away with disturbing imagery and descriptions. Each article uses its own distinctive style whilst describing the Okefenokee Swamp, revealing the individual purpose of each author. Diction plays a major role in conveying
Passage 1 utilizes a mixture of long and short sentences, though most are lengthy and loose. For example, the loose sentence “exotic flowers, among them floating hearts, lilies, and rare orchids, abound,” offers additional description of the plentiful exotic flowers. Furthermore, the lengthy sentences found in Passage 1 serve to provide the most detailed image of the Okefenokee as possible. Because of the thorough depiction of the swamp presented in Passage 1, the audience feels confident that the author has extensive knowledge on the subject. Therefore, they see the positive aspects of the swamp as an incentive to travel there and check it out themselves. Conversely, the author of Passage 2 uses parallelism and the length of his or her sentences as a way to instill horror in the audience. The animated parallelism found when the author says “of stinging, biting and boring insects…of much, mud, slime and ooze,” functions as a way to list the haunts of the Okefenokee in repetitive way. Parallelism within the sentences of Passage 2 prevents the audience from forgetting the countless evils that supposedly surround the swamp, successfully curbing the reader’s interest in paying the swamp a