Momaday Vs. Brown Analysis

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Writers never seem to use the same features in the same ways another writer does. Their writings are always shaped differently than another writer’s work. The two different Native American writers both use diction, syntax, imagery, and tone, but N.S. Momaday and D. Brown used each one differently to convey their overall purposes, which were to describe two similar but completely different landscapes. Diction can be thought of as the simplest and most powerful tool in writing. Both writers were able to use diction to their advantage, but Momaday had the real idea. He used simple, yet detailed, everyday words that people are able to relate to, such as colors, animals, and foods. In return, Momaday’s landscape seems more important with much detail to it. Brown used a similar technique with different results. His passage contained less detail which made his landscape seem less detailed and less important. The words Brown uses give the readers a sense of the desolate and worthless land that he is creating with his words.…show more content…
The details in the diction used are supposed to help the reader imagine exactly what is being seen through the writer’s eyes or mind. The uses of bigger detail in Momaday’s passage give the audience that visual image that helps create of sense of knowing. The audience is able to see what a beautiful land the plains are and just how it changes into even more beautifulness. It is just as simple to imagine the land of Brown’s passage. His lack of detail gave cause for the readers to imagine a land of nothingness and a land that isn’t worth looking at. Both writers used their diction and detail to convey the exact visual image they needed to get the write

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