How does language depicts Ellen's success? (Taking on the World)
She did succeed, however, to emphasise her success, Ellen has written a book on her experiences throughout the race. Ellen's language in the book is simple, direct and conversational. From the book we are given an extract that conveys her physical discomfort, isolation and the dangers involved of taking part in the race. These are illustrated using adjectives that describe physical discomfort, superlatives, emotive language, alliteration and many more. Through these techniques, we can see her hard work, struggle and difficult success.
The extract starts off with a sentence that summarises what the passage is going to be about. The emotive language in “worked through the night” and “agonised” of the first paragraph helps the readers to identify with Ellen's great effort in preparing for the climb. Such idiom and adjective express a large amount of dedication in her preparation her climb, not to mention the time she had spent in making sure she had all the “bits” she might need and the sacrifice of “[working] through the night”.
In the second and third paragraph, Ellen portrays the dangers involved in climbing the “cold and slippery” mast during sailing which includes “falling off”, being “thrown against the mast” and the possibility of “[breaking] bones”. The visual imagery in these few perils makes us the readers to be concerned with Ellen's well-being or even try to persuade her to drop out of the yacht race, even though we know that this event has already happened and that Ellen had survived through the whole ordeal in end as we are reading her book. In addition to the imagery in “break bones”, Ellen uses alliteration that creates the sound of breaking something and is enough to make the readers cringe. These few scenes of physical discomfort make us wonder why Ellen ever chose to participate even if she knows the risks.
The next few paragraphs are further signs of Ellen's physical discomfort as well as mental strain. Besides her physical distress,
The extract starts off with a sentence that summarises what the passage is going to be about. The emotive language in “worked through the night” and “agonised” of the first paragraph helps the readers to identify with Ellen's great effort in preparing for the climb. Such idiom and adjective express a large amount of dedication in her preparation her climb, not to mention the time she had spent in making sure she had all the “bits” she might need and the sacrifice of “[working] through the night”.
In the second and third paragraph, Ellen portrays the dangers involved in climbing the “cold and slippery” mast during sailing which includes “falling off”, being “thrown against the mast” and the possibility of “[breaking] bones”. The visual imagery in these few perils makes us the readers to be concerned with Ellen's well-being or even try to persuade her to drop out of the yacht race, even though we know that this event has already happened and that Ellen had survived through the whole ordeal in end as we are reading her book. In addition to the imagery in “break bones”, Ellen uses alliteration that creates the sound of breaking something and is enough to make the readers cringe. These few scenes of physical discomfort make us wonder why Ellen ever chose to participate even if she knows the risks.
The next few paragraphs are further signs of Ellen's physical discomfort as well as mental strain. Besides her physical distress,