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Please break your essay up into the following component parts, highlighting the various parts of each paragraph as follows:

Thesis: dark blue Topic sentence: red Opinion/analysis: light blue Supporting detail:purple Commentary: green Transitions: pink

I ntroduction : The way that an author presents his or her information to the reader can have a great effect on how the reader perceives that writing. Important literary elements can specify an author's purpse and indicate to a reader just what the author's purpose is. In Truman Capote's In Cold Blood use of diction, imager, tone, and selection of detail characterize Capote's view of Holcomb as unimportant and lonesome.

Body Paragraphs: The piece begins with the geography of the town and the surrounding area. In the first the author refers to the town as a "village". Village is used to describe the town the town to deliberately make it seem small. Next way the author's use of diction influences the piece is in the description of the building. The dance hall is described as "stark" and old. A converted apartment building is characterized as being "ramshackle". The post office is described as "falling-apart". This choice of words by the author convey the overall view of the town as unimportant and lonesome. Even the people of the town exhibt the author's attitude as the postmistress is described as gaunt.

When writing a passage the author has a choice of many different details to choose from. As the writer crafts the piece, each detail chosen reveals something about the overall attitude being conveyed. In the passage presented the author describes many run down and forgotten parts of the town which is then contrasted with the school. It is described as "a good-looking establishment, which reveals the circumstance that the appearance of the community otherwise camouflages" The choice of contrasting the school, which is only nice because the wealthy inhabitants of the surrounding area want a nice school for there children to attend, with the rundown buildings of the town help to convey the author's view of Holcomb as unimportant. Another detail selected is the trains that pass. Although this information is not vital to the reader's overall comprehension of the information being presented, it is included to show how small and forgotten the town actually is.

The diction and syntax of a piece can work together to create tone. This is another element that furthers the author's purpose in the passage. The words the author chose for this passage have an overall theme of desolation. The syntax conveys many things as simply an afterthought. When describing the trains the author says "No passenger trains do- only an occasional freight"

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