Sentence Types
"Disorder was its own point." (37)
based on the 5 senses. aims to re-create, invent, or present something so that the reader can experience it.
How did the Administration initially treat the San Francisco College student protests, according to Didion
They didn’t care and wanted to go relax, like ski, instead.
This passage is an example of which rhetorical device (figurative language)?
“The words, a line from Ezra Pound’s ‘In a Station of the Metro,’ were these: Petals on a wet black bough. The radio played ‘Wichita Lineman’ and ‘I Heard It on the Grapevine.’ Petals on a wet black bough” (36).
Allusion
What sentence type is the following sentence?
“Two hours and several dozen hand votes later, the group had selected four members to tell the press who owned the media, had decided to appear en masse at an opposition press conference, and had debated various slogans for the next day’s demonstration.” (40)
Simple
illustrate, support, and clarify ideas that include referring to a sample, detail, person, or typical event (examples)
What is an example of an individual or group largely unaffected by disorder in the 1960s?
Nancy Reagan, Bureaucrats
This passage is an example of which rhetorical device (figurative language)?
o “The police and the Mace and the noon arrests would become the routine of life on the campus, and every night the combatants would review their day on television: the waves of students advancing, the commotion at the edge of the frame, the riot sticks flashing, the instant of jerky camera that served to suggest at what risk the film was obtained; then a cut to the weather map” (37).
Imagery
What sentence type is the following sentence?
“It was working well for everyone, this game at San Francisco State, and its peculiar virtues had never been so clear to me as they became one afternoon when I sat in on a meeting of fifty or sixties SDS members” (40)
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events. recounts an event.
What is another instance not present in sections 7-9 where she discusses that time was not a viable aspect of the 1960s?
Page 26: “In the first place time was never of the essence” (When discussing music industry)
This passage is an example of which rhetorical device (figurative language)?
“Meanwhile the administrators could talk about programs. Meanwhile the white radicals could see themselves, on an investment of virtually nothing, as urban guerrillas” (39).
Anaphora
What is this an example of?
“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief.”
(extended metaphor)
Generally, what is Didion’s ordering of structure in regard to control and chaos throughout sections 7-9?
Scripted control, veering towards disorder, demonstration of chaos.
This passage is an example of which rhetorical device (figurative language)?
o “It should be clear that this was a list made by someone who prized control, yearned after momentum, someone determined to play her role as if she had the script, heard her cues, knew the narrative” (35).
Extended metaphor (metaphor is also okay)
This sentence is an example of __ _________ _________.
o “The very architecture of California state colleges tends to deny radical notions, to reflect instead a modest and hopeful vision of progressive welfare bureaucracy, and as I walked across the campus that day and on later days the entire San Francisco State dilemma – the gradual politicization, the ‘issues’ here and there, the obligatory ‘Fifteen Demands,’ the continual arousal of the police and the outraged citizenry – seemed increasingly off-key, an instance of the enfants terribles and the Board of Trustees unconsciously collaborating on a wishful fantasy (Revolution on Campus) and playing it ouot in time for the six o’clock news” (38).
An extended sentence