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Synonyms: |
active,
alert,
animate,
ardent,
brisk,
buoyant,
dynamic,
ebullient,
elated,
energetic,
energized,
enthusiastic,
excited,
fervent,
gay,
happy,
passionate,
peppy,
quick,
snappy,
spirited,
sprightly,
vibrant,
vigorous,
vital,
vitalized,
vivacious,
vivid,
zealous,
zestful,
zingy,
zippy, lively
Passage
"Then she slipped through it, and shut it behind her and stood with her back against
it, looking about her and breathing quite fast with excitement, and wonder, and delight. She was standing inside the garden.
It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place anyone
could imagine. 'How still it is!' she whispered. 'How still! No wonder it is still. I am the first person who has spoken in
here for ten years!' But she was inside the wonderful garden and she could come through the door under the ivy any time, and
she felt as it she had found a world all her own."
The Secret Garden ~Frances Hodgson
Explanantion
The ebullience of this passage is mainly transparent
when reading the phrases with exclamations. The author sought to make her character seem excited as well as bring the audience
to a familiarity by inputting interjections. This successful tactic is one of the ways that buoyancy may be depicted. As for
syntax, the elongated and comma-filled sentences creates a quick paced reading resembling the amount of zeal in the character.
The setting itself is described also yields a
vibrant mood. "Excitement, wonder, delight," mysterious-looking place," "imagine," and "world," are elongated words that make
the reader capture the author's tone intended to make a place of unlimited possibilites. All these qualities of the passage
arouse the audience to feel the vitality of the atmosphere.
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