Snowflakes Analysis

Author’s Note: Since I needed to get a 9 or above in Word Choice and Context Analysis, I took a previous piece of mine and analyzed its word choice.

Snowflakes

The swirling, sliding snowflakes, fall gently to the ground. Millions of grains of white sand in the sky, falling down to meet each other. The whoosh of the wind sends them dancing against their peers, locking arms to fall in clusters faster to the Earth. These weightless flakes become building-blocks in the break of day for adventure, for imagination, and for fighting. Still, this innocent powder, as light as a feather in space, can prohibit embarking out of one's home, and cause disaster on the streets. Also, from all of the tragedy, they can be structured into angels and men.

Alliteration – I used alliteration, which is the repetition of the first letter in multiple words, in this instance to enhance the tone and describe the snowflakes.

Metaphor – I used a metaphor to describe snowflakes in this case to enhance the description further and to bring a more personable explanation, that you could picture in your mind.

Onomatopoeia -  I used an onomatopoeia here to give the reader a description of the wind that they could almost hear.

Personification – I applied personification to make the snowflakes come to life through what a person could do such as dancing.

Irony – In these cases I used irony as an alternative way to describe the extremes of snowflakes like how they seem weightless, but become more than that and the destruction of them.

Anaphora – Here I decided to use an anaphora to list the uses of snow and to add more depth to my piece.

Simile – In this instance I applied a simile to show how light the snowflakes are by using an already “weightless” object such as feathers and put it in a zero gravity zone, space.