Question

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After reading the excerpt from A Day No Pigs Would Die, answer the question below. Use the rubric in the materials for help if needed.

Look closely at the descriptive, sensory, and precise word choices in the reading. How do these word choices add to the story? For your answer, explain how the language in this story affects readers in a clear topic sentence. Then, support your idea with an example of precise, descriptive, and sensory wording from the passage. Use details to support your answer.

Answer 1

Since our narrator is a 12-year-old boy who gets a D in English, it makes sense that A Day No Pigs Would Die isn't going to be told in standard college-essay language. And it isn't. Rob's not trying to impress anyone with this story, and he writes in a way that's very close to the way he talks: a natural, down-to-earth, hardscrabble kind of language, full of colloquialisms and informalities.

Step-by-step explanation:

Not only is Rob, um, not exactly a master at the rules of proper grammar and usage, but the language he's grown up hearing and speaking is full of unusual, colorful expressions. This makes for some really original, engaging, vivid ways of saying things. For instance, instead of just telling us he's surprised and taken aback by Aunt Matty's grammar lessons, he says this: