Okefenokee Swamp: Passage Analysis
Each story contains a specific type of style that contributes to the purpose. For passage 1, both diction and geographical imagery help forge the analytical style, describing certain traits of the Okefenokee swamp. Passage 2, through descriptive diction and the usage of figurative language, the passage exemplifies the species contained in the swamp and their contribution towards it. Moreover, through the descriptors listed above, the purpose for passage 2 consists on the certain life forms to roam the swamp. For passage 1, the intent reasons the characteristics of the swampland and its sustainability of complex plant life.
With geographical-type diction and imagery, an analytical style may be drawn for passage 1 as references are made
to the Okefenokee Swamp. For example, the “saucer-shaped depression” is approximately “25 mi wide” and “40 mi long”, covering an area of “more than 600 sq mi.” Thus, as the quote contains numerous geographical imagery and diction references to the swamps length, width and its overall form, an analytical style may be drawn, serving well to the general purpose of passage 1. Moreover, as the swamp is “surrounded by marshes, and extensive prairies”, “vegetation is dense in the swamp”, including “bald cypress trees”, of whom are “festooned with Spanish moss”, “where sandy solid is above the water”, the trees of pines “predominate” and exotic flowers such as “floating hearts, lilies, and rare orchids”. Drawn from the quotation(s) above, the geographical imagery and diction purely depict what lies along the swampland.
Passage 2's descriptive style, however, explains how the swamp is home to “two hundred and twenty-five species of birds”, “forty-three of mammals”, “fifty-eight of reptiles”, and the list goes on. Through descriptive styling, the quotations objectively describe the authors primary focus for the passage, which is the description of certain species roaming the swamp, “equipped with beaks, talons, claws, teeth, stingers, and fangs”, forging a negative-type attitude amongst the inhabitants of the swamp. Furthermore, the hyperbolic imagery may also add on towards the authors negative perspective regarding the species living in the Okefenokee swamp as “stinging, biting, and boring insects” of “muck, mud, slime, and ooze” are used as descriptors amongst the multiple species in the swamp.
Thus, the purpose for passage one is to describe what mysterious and convoluted plant may lie in the Okefenokee swamp through the usage analytical syntax and geographical imagery as distance was given regarding the size of the swamp and the swamps overall “saucer-shaped depression”, and what lie in it. The purpose for passage two, however, includes the hyperbolic imagery of “seething galaxies” of organisms that live in the swamp, and the authors negative attitude regarding those “seething galaxies” of organisms and exemplified via descriptive diction. The author for passage two describes the insects living on the swamp as “stinging, biting, and boring insects”, overlaying the authors negative attitude.
With geographical-type diction and imagery, an analytical style may be drawn for passage 1 as references are made
to the Okefenokee Swamp. For example, the “saucer-shaped depression” is approximately “25 mi wide” and “40 mi long”, covering an area of “more than 600 sq mi.” Thus, as the quote contains numerous geographical imagery and diction references to the swamps length, width and its overall form, an analytical style may be drawn, serving well to the general purpose of passage 1. Moreover, as the swamp is “surrounded by marshes, and extensive prairies”, “vegetation is dense in the swamp”, including “bald cypress trees”, of whom are “festooned with Spanish moss”, “where sandy solid is above the water”, the trees of pines “predominate” and exotic flowers such as “floating hearts, lilies, and rare orchids”. Drawn from the quotation(s) above, the geographical imagery and diction purely depict what lies along the swampland.
Passage 2's descriptive style, however, explains how the swamp is home to “two hundred and twenty-five species of birds”, “forty-three of mammals”, “fifty-eight of reptiles”, and the list goes on. Through descriptive styling, the quotations objectively describe the authors primary focus for the passage, which is the description of certain species roaming the swamp, “equipped with beaks, talons, claws, teeth, stingers, and fangs”, forging a negative-type attitude amongst the inhabitants of the swamp. Furthermore, the hyperbolic imagery may also add on towards the authors negative perspective regarding the species living in the Okefenokee swamp as “stinging, biting, and boring insects” of “muck, mud, slime, and ooze” are used as descriptors amongst the multiple species in the swamp.
Thus, the purpose for passage one is to describe what mysterious and convoluted plant may lie in the Okefenokee swamp through the usage analytical syntax and geographical imagery as distance was given regarding the size of the swamp and the swamps overall “saucer-shaped depression”, and what lie in it. The purpose for passage two, however, includes the hyperbolic imagery of “seething galaxies” of organisms that live in the swamp, and the authors negative attitude regarding those “seething galaxies” of organisms and exemplified via descriptive diction. The author for passage two describes the insects living on the swamp as “stinging, biting, and boring insects”, overlaying the authors negative attitude.