Travelers Fantasists, Conjurers, and Seers of the World...

Haley Stewart English 101 Marshall University ï » ¿Travelers: Fantasists, Conjurers, and Seers of the World What makes traveling to foreign lands such a coveted and memorable experience? What does one get out of exploring new cultures and atmospheres? In â€Å"The Shock of Teapots,† by Cynthia Ozick, the quality and nature of traveling and travelers themselves is explored. Within this work of creative nonfiction, Ozick strategically uses genre, diction, and exemplification to effectively emphasize that travelers see ordinary things in a new light when visiting other places and countries. She starts off by discussing a morning during a Swedish autumn. She describes the morning using a lot of imagery, saying things such as that it is†¦show more content†¦In this case, for example, the short story is considered creative nonfiction. Diction is described as an author’s choice and use of phrases in their writing; it helps emphasize the main theme of a piece of literature. Exemplification is simply the use of examples in order to support a point an author wishes to communicate. All of these are especially important in Ozick’s short story. The genre of this piece is particularly significant in relaying the intended message to its full extent. This short story comes from the book, In Short, a compilation of brief creative nonfiction. Creative nonfiction is a category of writing that creates a true story using literary techniques. Without this nonfiction genre, the story would lose the essence that makes it convincing to the reader. If it was a piece of fiction instead, the message, however potent it may be, might tend to make the audience feel less inclined to value the main point of the story-- it could lose credibility. For example, if Ozick said, â€Å"I, under the electrified rays of my whitening hair, stand drawn upward to the startling sky, restored to the clarity of childhood,† during her talk of Stockholm’s autumn sunshine in a fictional story, it wouldn’t have the effect of truthfulness to support it (pg. 69). Because this piece is a personal essay and therefore a personal experience of O zick’s life, it allows her to take the reader on a journey with her, in a sense. If it had been written in strictly third person