Diction Observation Guide

In the excerpt from Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine, he speaks in a very business-like and scholarly fashion that depicts an almost heavenly imagistic environment with “escalators of daylight.” Baker’s use of diction such as “towering volumes,” portrays a refined and controlled choice of words. The office’s description of “a pair of integral signs” as escalators “swooping” render Baker as a writer who creates mathematically exact metaphors.   With an almost picturesque illustration on an office in which “marble and glass,” “brushed steel” and “black rubber” meets sunlight to create “long glossy highlights” and “radians of black luster,” Baker draws in readers within the very first paragraph of his novel.

Quarterly

I think that of all the reading I've done this quarter, the Demonwars Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore was my favorite. In his writting his character devolpment was much more in depth than those of the Hels Crucible Duology by Dennis McKiernan. Salvatore made you question the true morals of his characters rather than just outright knowing. I think that McKiernan focused more on flooding his books with characters rather than taking the time to devolop his characters to their full potential. This quarter my reading times ranged from dawn to past dusk with no real reading schedule. I read anywhere from Jaeger's room to my office at home to the band field during practice. My goal this upcoming quarter is to reach 5000 pages, something that I have done in a specific period since my summer between 6th and 7th. Also I wish to finsh all of the Halo Books.