Mangroves By Dillard Analysis

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Mangroves I. Paraphrase Surviving is a mangrove’s expertise. Compared to trees, they exist as floating islands, living and going wherever the wind takes them. There are all kinds of mangroves, especially in the Galapagos and Florida, always getting butted by sharks. Disasters such as a hurricane cause them to become the floating islands described. Hurled into the ocean, the mangroves become floating things. They even call attention to thinkers and musicians, amazing them with the way they float and how they move, resembling “dancers”. A tree cannot live on salt, and therefore, mangroves exclude salt from their intake. If you lick a mangrove leaf, you will scrunch up your face…show more content…
Rhetorical Strategies 1. “And the mangrove island wanders on, afloat and adrift. It walks teetering and wanton before the wind, its fate and direction are random” irony/metaphor/foreshadowing- Ironically (dramatic), the readers by now know the purpose of the mangroves, and how they are metaphors for humans. Therefore, by Dillard going expressing how mangroves “[wander] on” the reader obviously knows it’s about people, not islands anymore. The metaphor has sunk in. Along in this sentence, comes the device of foreshadowing, “fate and direction are random” are obviously words aimed at the future of us humans and our destiny. 2. “The people called these river islands the dancers, ‘because in any consort of musicians singing, they stir and move at the stroke of the feet, keeping time and measure” metaphor- “the dancers”, the nickname given to these moving islands is witty indeed, and describes their appearance as well as their motive quite well. Because they “stir and move at the stroke of the feet” it is understood that they are well adapters, dancing along their changing…show more content…
Vocabulary 1. Parallelism - The repetition of a syntactic construction in successive sentences for rhetorical effect. 2. Understatement - The presentation of something as being smaller or less good or important than it actually is. 3. Expository - Intended to explain or describe something. 4.Speculative - Engaged in, expressing, or based on an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information rather than knowledge. 5. Analytical - Relating to or using analysis or logical reasoning. 6. Deductive - Characterized by the inference of particular instances from a general law. 7. Argumentative - for expressing divergent or opposite

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