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<em>I slowed still more, my shadow pacing me, dragging its head through the weeds that hid the fence.
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William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Analyze:
In this sentence, form imitates meaning. How does Faulkner slow the sentence down, reinforcing the sentence’s meaning?
Answer:
Faulkner slow the sentence down, reinforcing the sentence’s meaning by using words that help convey this idea.
Explanation:
If you pay attention, as soon as you begin to read the phrase, you find <em>"I slowed still more" </em>and somehow your brain also "makes reading slow". Continue like this by adding the word <em>"dragging"</em> reinforcing this idea.
The choice of an author's words has a lot to do with the impact it will have on the reading. That is why the authors use tools such as tone or voice to generate these effects.
