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10/20/16
AP English
Okefenokee revision

The following authors depict the Okefenokee swamp according to their own interpretations. One
believes it to be a habitat that can be a sight of awe, while the other concludes the swamp to be
an unsatisfying hot spot filled with disgusting things. However, they also both visualize beyond
their interpretations, and see the alluring habitat as an overall, hair-raising site.

The author of the first passage utilizes descriptive diction to convey the Okefenokee swamp as
a fascinating site packed with phenomenal and questionable wonders, that are uncanny. In the
beginning, the author describes the shape of the swamp as a shallow, saucer shaped
depression, which sounds an awful lot like a U.F.O., a mysterious flying object. This is one way
the author reveals just how mysterious the swamp is. In the middle of the passage, the author
discusses the vegetation. It is said that the vegetation is dense in the swamp and includes giant
tupelo and bald cypress trees festooned with Spanish moss. One encodes these descriptions
and visualizes a typical spooky swamp they may of read in a mystery/horror book. The
description develops an uncomfortable atmosphere that one may not want to explore. This
clearly supports the authors claim that the Okefenokee swamp is not just a mysterious place,
but also a scary one.

The author of passage 2 manipulates epexegesis to assert that the swamp is a strange,
frightful, and unpleasant place. The author states the swamp as a Hollywood spot. Hollywood
has been known for using swamps as stereotypical frightful settings for numerous horror/thriller
movies. As the middle approaches, the authors goes in depth to describe the actual setting of
the swamp. It is described as a place filled with Stinging, biting and boring insects, of maiden
cane of gum and cypress, of palmetto, slash pine and peat, of muck, mud, slime and ooze. This
description certainly dispatches a disgusting, repugnant, and unsatisfying visual to the readers
bleached mind. All of this that the author discusses is mentioned enable to fully support their
proclamation about how hideous and eerie the Okefenokee swamp is.

Both of these passages are described in different manners. The authors select different
rhetorical devices, as well as different choices of vocabulary to achieve their thesis. The first
author depicts the swamp to be more mysterious, while the second describes it to be grotesque.
However, although they both describe the swamp in different manners, at the end of the
passages, it can be agreed that both of these passages describe the Okefenokee swamp to be
frightful.