Stardust
In the exert Stardust, Neil Gaiman uses high language as he describes the house in Wall as, "old grey stone, with dark slate roofs." The tone is more connoting then denotative because it is suggesting and picturesque of the city near Wall and the long roads lined by forest are packed all hours of the night with travelers making their way to and from the city. The harsh tone used in Stardust creates a dull, clattering effect to the whole story.
Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy describes the early morning dusk with low connotating language to convey the hash and gentle setting of the exert.The vast and stormy setting of the exert conveys a connotating language throughout the novel. Meridian uses figurative language aswell and describes his fear of citizenery to add a vast diction that adds an old fashioned apperance to the novel.\
Falling Hard
The book Falling Hard edited by Betsy Franco is a collection of love poems written by teenagers. it has a high elevation with elegant and fancy diction. The tone is connotative because it has an emotional feel to it and it describes the poetic and lyrical emotions of young love.The musical sounds generated by these love poems convey a harmonious and melodious tone to the book that adds to the fragile yet helpless attitude of the teenagers in love.
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