The Perfect Storm Literary Techniques
Many natural disasters happen on a daily occurrence such as the hurricane that killed 2,500 people or the tsunami that took the lives of 280,000. In both “Super Disasters” by Jacqueline Adams and The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger the authors wrote about natural disasters however they do this in very different ways, like in how they vary their writing techniques. For example, “Super Disasters” is more of an informational article whereas The Perfect Storm starts off as a personal anecdote. So as you can see both authors in these stories use many different types of techniques and strategies such as vocabulary, data, and text structure. They use these to describe the causes and effects of some of the most outrageous natural disasters. The
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Like how in the starting paragraphs of The Perfect Storm the author uses a personal anecdote “You see so much bad weather that you kind of get used to it. But then you see really bad weather. And”. This is a personal story because you can see that the author uses words like “you”and he also provides the way he feels which is not found iis not always found in descriptive writing.. In contradistinction to this Adams can be found using lots of description in her article “hurricane katrina’s mighty winds tore up some towns to shreds, and drowned others in floodwaters.” This shows lots of description by creating imagery of what damage hurricane katrina did .Comparatively they both use cause and effect to describe the natural disasters. Like how Adams writes “The aftershock not only interfered with rescue efforts, they also triggered landslides that blocked rivers”. Cause and effect is shown, because it shows that for the landslides to have to occured there must have been an aftershock. Junger also uses cause and effect on page 162 of The Perfect Storm “ Too fast and we’d start surfing, too slow and the waves would just blast right over the boat.”. This depicts cause and effect because it says what the causes and effects of either going too fast or too slow during the
Like how in the starting paragraphs of The Perfect Storm the author uses a personal anecdote “You see so much bad weather that you kind of get used to it. But then you see really bad weather. And”. This is a personal story because you can see that the author uses words like “you”and he also provides the way he feels which is not found iis not always found in descriptive writing.. In contradistinction to this Adams can be found using lots of description in her article “hurricane katrina’s mighty winds tore up some towns to shreds, and drowned others in floodwaters.” This shows lots of description by creating imagery of what damage hurricane katrina did .Comparatively they both use cause and effect to describe the natural disasters. Like how Adams writes “The aftershock not only interfered with rescue efforts, they also triggered landslides that blocked rivers”. Cause and effect is shown, because it shows that for the landslides to have to occured there must have been an aftershock. Junger also uses cause and effect on page 162 of The Perfect Storm “ Too fast and we’d start surfing, too slow and the waves would just blast right over the boat.”. This depicts cause and effect because it says what the causes and effects of either going too fast or too slow during the