Exercise 1

In Lydna Berry's "Cruddy" Berry's crude and terse language suggests that the narrator has a harsh violent manor. "Who can't even CONCENTRATE TO WRITE this because her little sister will NOT shut up," announces the narrator illustrating the harsh reality to her life. "I WILL KILL IF YOU TOUCH THIS," the way that the narrator speaks in the passage conveys a wretched and ill-humored ton suggesting to stay away from her things or else you will be dead. The repeating "cruddy," demonstrates the over all effect that the narrator feels through out the entire passage.