Rhetorical Analysis Of Diction By Zora Neale Hurston
In her essay Zora Neale Hurston uses elevated diction as well as manipulation of viewpoint to enrich the audience with her childhood experience. In the beginning of her essay the author starts off with a very detailed description of her house as she details the exact number of trees. By doing this the author is able to provide the author with a rather vivid description of her childhood home. She furthermore emphasizes the importance of the flowers as she states how expensive they are in New York in comparison to her small hometown.
Hurston continues to implement diction as a method enrich the reader's knowledge of her childhood. The author begins to mention the multitude of fruits which her family grows on their large farm complete with five
acre garden. She furthermore describes her farm experience by stating that eggs, chicken and fish were always plentiful but beef was a rare commodity. By giving this in depth detail of her diet while living on the farm the reader is able to relate to her on a more personal level while at the same time expanding the content within the story.
The author also uses manipulation of viewpoint to give the reader an enriched experience of her childhood upbringing. At the beginning of the fifth paragraph the author's viewpoint changes which results in the author gaining a different perspective/ outlook on the characters previously mentioned. Earlier in the text the author made her father seem to be a nice, everyday man who provided for his family but changes her viewpoint in this paragraph as she makes him out to be filled with anger and potentially abusive as the author states that her father constantly threatened to break her spirit or kill her in the process of trying. This manipulation of viewpoint is used to build the character in such a way that it nearly makes them the complete opposite of how they actually seemingly turning them into what the author wishes that they were like.
Within her essay the author Zora Neale Hurston uses a bevy of example of diction as well as manipulation of viewpoint to provide the audience with an enriched view of her childhood experience.
Hurston continues to implement diction as a method enrich the reader's knowledge of her childhood. The author begins to mention the multitude of fruits which her family grows on their large farm complete with five
acre garden. She furthermore describes her farm experience by stating that eggs, chicken and fish were always plentiful but beef was a rare commodity. By giving this in depth detail of her diet while living on the farm the reader is able to relate to her on a more personal level while at the same time expanding the content within the story.
The author also uses manipulation of viewpoint to give the reader an enriched experience of her childhood upbringing. At the beginning of the fifth paragraph the author's viewpoint changes which results in the author gaining a different perspective/ outlook on the characters previously mentioned. Earlier in the text the author made her father seem to be a nice, everyday man who provided for his family but changes her viewpoint in this paragraph as she makes him out to be filled with anger and potentially abusive as the author states that her father constantly threatened to break her spirit or kill her in the process of trying. This manipulation of viewpoint is used to build the character in such a way that it nearly makes them the complete opposite of how they actually seemingly turning them into what the author wishes that they were like.
Within her essay the author Zora Neale Hurston uses a bevy of example of diction as well as manipulation of viewpoint to provide the audience with an enriched view of her childhood experience.