Ingredient - Add Salt

Salt to cooking is figure of speech to writing. 

After reviewing Monday's ingredient, I realized I had more sour sentences than savory, a lot more. So I widened my selection, concentrating on more of those savory sentence samples. Then I sat down and examined the contents, chewing carefully.

These are the salient:

1. The strange silencethat haunts the interpretation of Sarah Kemble Knight’s Journal (c. 1704) is doubly odd, given the continued prominence of the text in American literature canon. – Narrative and Class in a Culture of Consumption
• Alliteration; Allusion
2. Few commodities in Atlantic history can be as humble as the plantation hoe. – The Plantation Hoe
• Personification
3. On April 16, 1787 Royall Tyler, Jr. had the pleasure of seeing the first production of his play, The Contrast. – Class Positioning and Shay’s Rebellion
• Cliche
4. Even seasoned observers of academic fashionsmay feel giddy noticing the rise of something called the "New Historicism," especially as we had just grown accustomed to pronouncements, whether celebratory or derogatory, that there was no getting" beyond formalism.” – American Literature and the New Historicism
• Metonymy; Paradox; Description
5. One thread in the American nineteenth-century discourse of sentiment wraps itself around women's bodies. – Cultural Rhetoric of Women’s Corsets
• Personification & Hyperbole
6. If this book were an exhibit, I could arrange it as a room, one of those three-sided rooms you sometimes find in museums, open on one side like a dollhouse, with a little fence or rope across.– Age of Homespun
• Metaphor; Similie
7. Any commentator rash enough to pass sentence on a powerful new critical movement before its star has plainly waned is tempting fate. – New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
• Idiom; Oxymoron
8. The Victorian novel describes, catalogs, quantifies, and in general showers us with things: post chaises, handkerchiefs, moonstones, wills, riding crops, ship’s instruments of all kinds, dresses of muslin, merino, and silk, coffee, claret, cutlets – cavalcades of objects threaten to crowd the narrative right off the page. – The Ideas in Things
• Metaphor; Idiom

Somewhere in my quest for that A+, I became bland like low sodium canned soup. I forgot to add salt to my writing. Well, that's all about to change. I wonder what my professors are going to say, or will they even notice? 

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