Critical Analysis Of My Strong Suit By Jean Brandy

English class has not always been a strong suit of mine. I tend to struggle when it comes to learning literary terms and understanding passages. This week though, I have been able to comprehend concepts gone over in the material, as well as understanding how those concepts are applied in works. The first thing we covered this week was rhetorical situations. When I first read the title I thought back to Junior year of High School when I learned about rhetorical squares. This was not my strong suit, which caused me to worry a little bit about this material. Once we got into the material about rhetorical situations I realized that the way it was described made sense and was easier to comprehend. Rhetorical situation means any situation where you

“The challenge is to make your story compelling and meaningful for readers, to make readers care about the storyteller, and curious to know what happened” (Author name, p.13). In order to overcome this challenge you should apply your narrative tool box, which should consist. of ways to add emotion, detail, suspense, structure, and more to your story. For example, some of the tools you may want to include would be dialogue, action verbs, vivid description, diction and syntax, and reflection. All of these tools have different roles though in a story and you can see how each are used to provide depth to a work in the essay by Jean Brandy titled Calling Home. Dialogue is used to provide insight into people and relationships in a work. Action verbs contribute to the drama and create a picture of what is being told. Vivid description captures where the scene is taking place. Diction and syntax provide structure to a work, with word choice and placement. Reflection provides an example, your thoughts, and feelings pertaining to your story.. Your narrative tool box helps you fully express feelings and context to the right extent, but it is not the only thing that goes into a