EmpoWord - A Student-Centered Anthology & Handbook for College Writers, 2018a

How to Use This Book
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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
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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