Tuesday, March 1, 2011

3.1 Diction Exercise

A Dandelion For My Mother By: Jean Nordhaus

Representative Words: spikey, big-headed children, sturdy, galaxies, domes, cerebrums, clinging, trembling,

Elevation: Medium-realistic, detailed

Concreteness: colorful, quaint

Claim:
In Jean Nordhaus' poem A Dandelion For My Mother establishes one of his detailed memories of a realistic dandelion and the quaint transformation.

1 comment:

  1. Great log--one of the top reading logs of all three Etymology sections, easily. And your hat looks great, too!

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