The Great Influenza Excerpt Analysis

1. The Great Influenza Excerpt Analysis Schemes Involving Omission and Repetition

2. Definitions and Examples Scheme: Different variations from the typical arrangement of words in a sentence. Omission: To leave out or exclude something. Ellipsis: Any omission of words in a sentence where the reader is still able to understand the context. -She walks the dog around the block and then back in. Asyndeton: An omission of conjunctions between relative clauses. -She wanted to buy lollipops, gummy bears, chocolate-practically the whole store! Alliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words. -Sally sells seashells by the seashore. Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds emphasized in two or more adjacent words. - "Hear the mellow wedding bells" -Edgar Allen Poe Anaphora: Repetition of phrases at the beginning of clauses. -He lost his homework, he lost his pants, he lost control of his life.

3. Continue Epistrophe: Repetition of the same words at the end of clauses. -Don't talk about my friend, you don't know my friend, don't look at my friend, and certainly you are not my friend. Anadiplosis: Repetition of the last word in a clause that becomes the first word in another clause. -Going swimming is one way to release stress; stress build-up can make one go insane. Climax: Repetition of words, phrases, or clauses in order of increasing importance. -Good students need to respect their school property, their peers, their teachers, and their principals.

4. Repetition and Omission "Ultimately, if the researcher succeeds, a flood of colleagues will pave roads over the path laid, and those roads will be orderly and straight, taking an investigator in minutes to a place the pioneer spent months or years looking for." - The use of anadiplosis emphasizes the the importance of "roads" that researchers create in the scientific wilderness, and that these roads affect future studies. "There they probe in a disciplined way. There a single step can take them through the looking glass..." - Anaphora is used in this excerpt to reveal to readers that in the scientific wilderness, researchers are in the dark; they must proceed with caution. "In the wilderness the scientist must create... everything." - The author uses ellipsis in this sentence in order to suggest to readers that in the scientific wilderness, there is nothing but what the scientist creates. "Certainty creates strength. Certainty gives one something upon which to lean. Uncertainty creates weakness. Uncertainty makes one..." - The use of certainty and uncertainty are a form of anaphora which emphasizes that certainty is the driving force of scientists continuing their research. "Uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, when in the right direction..." - The author uses anadiplosis to explain the negative effects of uncertainty in producing hesitancy; being tentative is a detriment in accomplishing one's goals. " To be a scientist requires not only intelligence and curiosity, but patience and passion..." - The use of alliteration in this sentence creates a lingering emotion for the reader by stimulating the memory of the reader.

5. Brainstorm Activity 1) Find the use of Omission and Repetition from "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more. It was cold in the fall in Milan and the dark came very early. Then the electric lights came on, and it was pleasant along the streets looking in the windows. There was much game hanging outside the shops, and the snow powdered in the fur of the foxes and the wind blew their tails. The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty, and small birds blew in the wind and the wind turned their feathers. It was a cold fall and the wind came down from the mountains. We were all at the hospital every afternoon, and there were different ways of walking across the town through the dusk to the hospital. Two of the ways were alongside canals, but they were long. Always, though, you crossed a bridge across a canal to enter the hospital. There was a choice of three bridges. On one of them a woman sold roasted chestnuts. It was warm, standing in front of her charcoal fire, and the chestnuts were warm afterward in your pocket. The hospital was very old and very beautiful, and you entered through a gate and walked across a courtyard and out a gate on the other side. There were usually funerals starting from the courtyard. Beyond the old hospital were the new brick pavilions, and there we met every afternoon and were all very polite and interested in what was the matter, and sat in the machines that were to make so much difference. -The "Iceberg Theory" Is used to describe Hemingway's writing style. -You must look underneath the skin of what you're reading to find what it truly means, its deeper meaning.