Close-Reading Bingo

1. "He says whatever comes to mind, saying that his parents "would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them," shows that he doesn't really care what he says, just wants to get his point across." http://maddie17-booklover.blogspot.com/

2. Baker describes as the escalator as "They were the free standing kind: a pair of integral signs swooping upward between the two floors they served without struts or piers to bear any intermediate weight" and  he tells us that "On sunny days like this one, a temporary, steeper escalator of daylight, formed by intersections of the lobby's towering volumes of marble and glass, met the real escalators just above their middle point, spreading into a needly area of shine where it fell against their brushed-steel side-pannels, and adding long glossy highlights to each of the black rubber handrails" http://theycallmefreshmoney.blogspot.com/

3.There is no rhythm to the first paragraphs - merely blunt statements that pull the reader in. http://beccaboola1013.blogspot.com/2011/10/observation-and-inference.html

4.Throughout the excerpt Barker used excellent verbs and description to explain all of the sentences. http://jess-jess1993.blogspot.com/2011/10/mezzanine-nicholson-baker.html

Best:   In the excerpt from the novel Catcher in the Rye, Salinger’s defiant and intensely irreverent diction infers the unruliness and juvenile attitude of Salinger. “I’m not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything” is an ideal example of the childish and disheartened diction of Salinger. The formality of this excerpt is low and the connotation is very literal and straight forward. The mood seems to be quite coarse. The irreverent diction and attitude from this excerpt emphasizes the low formality and tone of the novel. http://hogsmogblog1.blogspot.com/2011/10/practice-diction-analysis.html