Close Reading Bingo

long quotation 2. Baker describes as the escalator as "They were the free standing kind: a pair of integral signs swooping upward between the two floors they served without struts or piers to bear any intermediate weight" -TheyCallMeFreshMoney

"uses" 6. The exert The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker uses high language as he describes the lobby and escalators as, "area of shine where it fell against their brushed steel side panels." -Eddie

written in past tense 7.The Mezzanine, written by Nicholson Baker is elegant, elevated, and also scholarly in the verbs being used. This excerpt was not extremely musical. It was also literal in denotation, as while reading it. Throughout the excerpt Barker used excellent verbs and description to explain all of the sentences.-Let's Start!

talks about how the reader would feel 4. In the excerpt from Nicholson Baker’s novel, The Mezzanine, Baker’s literal tone, but relaxed voiced allows the reader to get inside the mind of the speaker, to be able to really understand what he is thinking. -Notoriously MoFulla 

 This is the best one I came across! 
The dignified formality of Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine describes the unusual tolerance the narrator feels for escalators in his work place.  -My Everyday Sticky Waffle

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