The Horizontal World Literary Analysis

In the memoir, The Horizontal World written by Debra Marquart, she describes growing up in the Midwest region. By using literary devices, she tells the readers about her profound love for the area, even though it may seem to the blind eye as a boring and lonely place to visit. Literary devices such as allusions and charged diction suggest that the Midwest has a unique beauty that not everyone notices, or bothers to notice. By using these literary devices, Marquart is able to convince her readers of the beauty of the Midwest. In her writing Marquart uses charged diction to describe the land that the Midwest holds. While describing the terrain of North Dakota Marquart writes, “you’ll encounter a road so lonely, treeless, and devoid of rises