Close-reading Bingo

1. (error 1 and 4) The only history the narrator seems to inform the reader about is "madman stuff" that happened to him before he becomes "pretty run-down."
http://budinthegarden.blogspot.com/

2. (error 3) Also, the narrator’s repetition of slang suggests that he is uneducated or unconcerned with perfecting his speech.
http://estella-havisham.blogspot.com/2011/10/practice-diction-analysis.html

3. (error 6)  The language that used is not over sophisticated, yet it is neither vulgar nor blunt.
http://bookworm-days.blogspot.com/2011/10/close-reading-diction.html

4. (error 8) There is a chattiness about the writing with words like "black Penguin paperback" and "integral signs swooping upward between two floors".
http://morgan-happygolucky.blogspot.com/2011/10/mezzanine-claim.html

Best paragraph I came across today:

J.D. Salinger masters the voice of his protagonist, Holden Caulfield, in the first page of his novel Catcher in the Rye, using direct, colloquial, and bluntly offensive diction. Holden starts by saying that while he knows the reader would like to know about his background, he is not going to provide any information on his origins. His gruff, devil-may-care attitude exudes from the page, as he says he can’t be bothered with “all that David Copperfield kind of crap.” Holden’s trademark sense of superiority reverberates within the passage. While Holden’s language is neither profound nor particularly beautiful, it is representative of how a disenchanted teenager speaks. Holden complains that he won’t give his “whole goddam autobiography” and that his prother is far away from “this crummy place.” He has no objection to cursing, a sign of rebellion against the norm through language. Salinger breathes life into Holden by rambling and cussing, providing literature’s favorite teenage antihero with an identifiably meandering and rude voice.

http://academiczengerine.blogspot.com/