An analysis of the aspect of mood in a key passage from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day In the Life
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... ords. For example, the adjective "zealously", describing Shukhov's chopping of the ice upon the wall, is quite like the word "zest" in the mood which it suggests. Similarly, when "Shukhov tackled the wall as if it was his own handiwork", the excitement and intensity of the task is effectively produced through the verb of the sentence. To tackle anything suggests a certain vigor on the part of the tackler, a vigor that would be more foreign in a prison camp than in any other setting that life provides. In such a way as these words accomplish their tasks, diction becomes one of the most effective means of impressing upon a reader a mood, o ...
