English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 35

In paragraph 1, the author recounts her experiences eating school lunches. She could have simply written, "I ate casseroles, canned fruits, and cooked vegetables." Instead she writes, "Half a canned pear in a shaky nest of Jell-O didn t do much to excite our tastebuds. I hid my share of limp green beans under my napkin, the better to escape the eagle eye of lunchroom monitors who encouraged us to eat our soggy, overcooked vegetables." Why do you think she provides such vivid details What is the effect on her readers