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How to Use This Book xii Table of Contents – Readings (continued) Skills or Rhetorical Modes Showcased “Blood & Chocolate Milk” by Maia Wiseman “It’s time for some more medicine, does your mouth hurt?” “A little bit,” I said as best as I could with numb lips. The words came out muffled and strange. Gauze thick with blood and saliva was tucked over the wounds from the excavation. My mouth had become a foreign landscape with mountains of gauze and slippery rivers of blood. My tongue tried to ignore the upset. Description Thick description Imagery Figurative language Narration Narrative scope Narrative sequence Characterization Reflection Weave 143 Chapter Four “Drag the River” by Ryan Mills Parked at milepost 6, the grease fire night pulled the river toward the delta. The water ran low; the trees performed their shakes. — 165 “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson And he was rich—yes, richer than a king— And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. — 166 “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” by John Donne So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move; ‘Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. — 167