Close Reading Prose Exercise (10 points): Write a 500-word analysis of one of the passages below

Close Readin" rel="nofollow">ing Prose Exercise (10 poin" rel="nofollow">ints): Write a 500-word analysis of one of the passages below. You may select one by either Aphra Behn or Jonathan Swift. For this assignment, analyze the formal features of your chosen passage (diction, syntax, tone, grammar, context within" rel="nofollow">in the book, etc) and make a brief argument about why the formal decisions that the author makes matter. In other words, do not simply summarize or describe the passage but make an argument about it—tell me what makes it worthy of commentary and explication. 1) Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave – Aphra Behn Norton vol. C, p. 2336) I ought to tell you that the Christians never buy any slaves but they give ’em some name of their own, their native ones bein" rel="nofollow">ing likely very barbarous and hard to pronounce; so that Mr. Trefry gave Oroonoko that of Caesar, which name will live in" rel="nofollow">in that country as long as that (scarce more) glorious one of the great Roman; for ’tis most evident, he wanted1 no part of the personal courage of that Caesar, and acted thin" rel="nofollow">ings as memorable, had they been done in" rel="nofollow">in some part of the world replenished with people and historians that might have given him his due. But his misfortune was to fall in" rel="nofollow">in an obscure world, that afforded only a female pen to celebrate his fame; though I doubt not but it had lived from others' endeavors, if the Dutch, who immediately after his time took that country,2 had not killed, banished, and dispersed all those that were capable of givin" rel="nofollow">ing the world this great man's life, much better than I have done. And Mr. Trefry, who designed it, died before he began it, and bemoaned himself for not havin" rel="nofollow">ing undertook it in" rel="nofollow">in time. *** 2) Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave – Aphra Behn Norton vol. C, p. 2331 This commander was a man of a fin" rel="nofollow">iner sort of address and conversation, better bred and more engagin" rel="nofollow">ing than most of that sort of men are, so that he seemed rather never to have been bred out of a court than almost all his life at sea. This captain" rel="nofollow">in therefore was always better received at court than most of the traders to those countries were; and especially by Oroonoko, who was more civilized, accordin" rel="nofollow">ing to the European mode, than any other had been, and took more delight in" rel="nofollow">in the white nations, and above all men of parts and wit. To this captain" rel="nofollow">in he sold abundance of his slaves, and for the favor and esteem he had for him, made him many presents, and obliged him to stay at court as long as possibly he could. Which the captain" rel="nofollow">in seemed to take as a very great honor done him, entertain" rel="nofollow">inin" rel="nofollow">ing the prin" rel="nofollow">ince every day with globes and maps, and mathematical discourses and in" rel="nofollow">instruments; eatin" rel="nofollow">ing, drin" rel="nofollow">inkin" rel="nofollow">ing, huntin" rel="nofollow">ing, and livin" rel="nofollow">ing with him with so much familiarity that it was not to be doubted but he had gain" rel="nofollow">ined very greatly upon the heart of this gallant young man. And the captain" rel="nofollow">in, in" rel="nofollow">in return of all these mighty favors,besoughttheprin" rel="nofollow">incetohonor hisvesselwithhispresence,somedayorother,todin" rel="nofollow">inner,before he should set sail; which he condescended to accept, and appoin" rel="nofollow">inted his day. *** 1 Lacked?2 In 1667 the Dutch attacked and conquered Surin" rel="nofollow">inam, and England ceded it by treaty in" rel="nofollow">in exchange for New York. Gulliver’s Travels: Part 2, Chapter 1 – Jonathan Swift Norton vol. C, pp. 2538-39 I hope the gentle reader will excuse me for dwellin" rel="nofollow">ing on these and the like particulars, which however in" rel="nofollow">insignificanttheymayappeartogrovelin" rel="nofollow">ingvulgarmin" rel="nofollow">inds,yetwillcertain" rel="nofollow">inlyhelpaphilosopher3 toenlarge his thoughts and imagin" rel="nofollow">ination, and apply them to the benefit of public as well as private life, which was my sole design in" rel="nofollow">in presentin" rel="nofollow">ing this and other accounts of my travels to the world; wherein" rel="nofollow">in I have been chiefly studious of truth, without affectin" rel="nofollow">ing any ornaments of learnin" rel="nofollow">ing or of style. But the whole scene of this voyage made so strong an impression on my min" rel="nofollow">ind, and is so deeply fixed in" rel="nofollow">in my memory, that in" rel="nofollow">in committin" rel="nofollow">ing it to paper I did not omit one material circumstance; however, upon strict review, I blotted out several passages of less moment which were in" rel="nofollow">in my first copy, for fear of bein" rel="nofollow">ing censured as tedious and triflin" rel="nofollow">ing, whereof travelers are often, perhaps not without justice, accused. *** Gulliver’s Travels: Part 4, Chapter 10 – Jonathan Swift Norton vol. C, pp. 2621-22 When I thought of my family, my friends, my countrymen, or human race in" rel="nofollow">in general, I considered them as they really were, Yahoos in" rel="nofollow">in shape and disposition, perhaps a little more civilized, and qualified with the gift of speech; but makin" rel="nofollow">ing no other use of reason than to improve and multiply those vices, whereof their brethren in" rel="nofollow">in this country had only the share that nature allotted them. When I happened to behold the reflection of my own form in" rel="nofollow">in a lake or fountain" rel="nofollow">in, I turned away my face in" rel="nofollow">in horror and detestation ofmyself, and could better endure the sight of a common Yahoo than of my own person. By conversin" rel="nofollow">ing with the Houyhnhnms, and lookin" rel="nofollow">ing upon them with delight, I fell to imitate their gait and gesture, which is now grown in" rel="nofollow">into a habit; and my friends often tell me in" rel="nofollow">in a blunt way, that I trot like a horse; which, however, I take for a great compliment. Neither shall I disown, that in" rel="nofollow">in speakin" rel="nofollow">ing I am apt to fall in" rel="nofollow">into the voice and manner of the Houyhnhnms, and hear myself ridiculed on that account without the least mortification.