Sunday, December 1, 2013

New York Train Derails

According to a report from CNN.com published on December 1, 2013, a train derailment has caused four deaths and close to seventy injuries; eleven passengers suffer from serious injuries. The train, containing eight interconnected cars, had seven cars travel off of the rail. Consonance is used many times during the article, but it is unintentional. When reflecting on the crash, one of the interviewed persons used "whoosh" as a description; this is an onomatopoeia. At one point in the article, the authors use an elliptical when stating how many of the cars were derailed in comparison to the number of cars in the actual train. Lastly, the authors make an analogy to compare this accident to another derailment that happened in July, in which there were no injuries. Another analogy is drawn to an crash between two train cars that happened last May in Connecticut.  

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