What Do Our Hearts Treasure Rhetorical Analysis

Describing a house, a tree, or even opening a package are all very good times to use imagery to convey an image that readers can visualize in their minds. “Built of cinder blocks and was painted shocking pink. The principal tree on the place was a tall power pole sprouting transformers; it stood a few feet from the canal and threw a pleasant shade across the drive.” This example of visual imagery helps to visualize the surroundings that the writing piece takes place. Describing a main item in the story or essay is another good use for visual imagery. “The pot was handsome, and the tree looked like a miniature version of the classic oasis scene in the desert. When the plant was delivered, a small chameleon arrived with it and soon made the living

is ambivalent, which means having mixed feeling, uncertain, in a dilemma, and undecided. White seems to be unsure about his feelings for spending his christmas somewhere other than home where he has spent it every other year since a couple of years ago. When White says, “I knew there would have to be certain adjustments, emotional and physical, to this shift in ceremony, but I guess I was not quite prepared for them and had not really figured them out,” readers can certainly hear that he is uncertain about the new home for christmas. In What Do Our Hearts Treasure? Alliteration is a type of consonance so that means that both alliteration and consonance can be found. The words fun and full, suffering from spells, and fashioned a five-pointed star are all examples of alliteration. Taciturn is a person who is reserved or uncommunicative in speech. Rather than saying wail or moan authors use lament to more properly describe a sound. To say the scene is perfect, is a nice sentence, but to say the scene is idyllic is prettier and more appealing. Lastly, if a package disgorges its contents, it is emit or discharging them, however a disgorged sounds better others tend to use this word