Exercise 1

In the excerpt from Cruddy, Lynda Barry diction is plain, repetitive and straightforward.  "Once upon a cruddy time on a cruddy street on the side of a cruddy hill..." the repetitive use of cruddy creates a negative feel for the place she is describing. "...which bubbles up very weird smells that evil genie themselves up through the cruddy dark rain..." in this passage Barry chooses to use vocab that is very elementary, the adjectives suchas weird and dark are very plain. The description of the setting and the characters is also straightforward and gives no feel of poetecism.