Santa Ana
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“The Santa Ana”
Brainstorming:
-Diction: Theres an eerie, mysterious feel about the Santa Ana throughout the passage yet all we really know is that the wind puts everyone in a strange feeling. Expresses the anxiety of the people of in Los Angeles “uneasy, unnatural stillness and tension”-how Joan feels about the feeling the winds bring. She links her word selection with the feelings that the winds bring with it for example: “drying the hills
and the nerves to a flashpoint” brings a nervous/ anxious feeling to it that the people of the town feel.
-Syntax: I think the pattern of the passage changes in the last paragraph when the author begins to bring in science to the eeriness
the reader finds out what this is all about.
-Tone: The character describing the Santa Ana seems to have a young perspective and the reader gets a mysterious vibe about the Santa Ana because we only know what the innocent child knows. The innocence is carried out until in the last paragraph when she is older, she talks about how science steps into the picture (as it often does).
“The Santa Ana”
Brainstorming:
-Diction: Theres an eerie, mysterious feel about the Santa Ana throughout the passage yet all we really know is that the wind puts everyone in a strange feeling. Expresses the anxiety of the people of in Los Angeles “uneasy, unnatural stillness and tension”-how Joan feels about the feeling the winds bring. She links her word selection with the feelings that the winds bring with it for example: “drying the hills
and the nerves to a flashpoint” brings a nervous/ anxious feeling to it that the people of the town feel.
-Syntax: I think the pattern of the passage changes in the last paragraph when the author begins to bring in science to the eeriness
the reader finds out what this is all about.
-Tone: The character describing the Santa Ana seems to have a young perspective and the reader gets a mysterious vibe about the Santa Ana because we only know what the innocent child knows. The innocence is carried out until in the last paragraph when she is older, she talks about how science steps into the picture (as it often does).