Story Of An Hour Rhetorical Analysis

In the short story, “The Story of An Hour”, written by Kate Choppin, a woman with a heart trouble is told her husband had passed away in a railroad disaster. Mrs. Mallard was depressed, then she came to a realization that she was free. Back in the day this story was written, women did not have many rights. They were overruled by their husband. As she became more aware of how many doors her husband death would open, she had passed away. The doctors had said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills. The irony in the situation was that as she was dying, her husband walked through the door, alive. This story consists of many syntaxes. Syntax is the physical structure of a sentence, usually manipulated by the author to achieve a certain tone. For example, in paragraph thirteen, the story states, “And yet she had loved him--sometimes.” The author had intentionally

A polysyndeton is the intentional repeated use of a conjunction in a list of words or phrases. In paragraph eleven, the author writes, “She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death: the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead.” The author included the conjunction and to indicate that she was dreading this moment. She was not looking forward to the moment where she would look in the casket to see her dead husband. An asyndeton is when the author of the story intentionally leaves out conjunctions in a list of words or phrase. In paragraph nine, the author continues with, “But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filler the air.” This asyndeton makes a reader automatically think of it as more vivid. It makes a reader get a picture in there head of what the author is trying to get their audience to see. Polysyndeton and asyndeton help to convey what the author wants us to