Dumbfounded but hardly surprised, Stevens shuffles back to the table in front of the room, noisily pulls the chair out, and plops down into it
The author uses vivid sensory details to describe the professors reaction to what Bobby just said
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- Sep 2020
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Stevens scowls and shakes his head, stuffs his hands in his pockets, and mutters something under his breath about the “catastrophe of modernism” before turning toward the chalkboard. He digs a piece of yellow chalk from his bag and scrawls on the board: WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW.
This is vivid imagery because it describes his emotions and how frustrated he sounds after Dana's overreaction
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Plastering on a smile, he welcomes the students to Intro to Creative Writing and orders them to take out a pencil and notebook
The "plastering on a smile" in this sentence indicates that professor Stevens is either really bored or just uninterested in his class in general.
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He strolls into his classroom wearing his uniform—faded black jeans that sag in the rear and a worn fleece pullover
This gives the reader an image of the main character to know what type of person they are and what they look like
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Professor Stevens dislikes donuts; the icing gets stuck in his beard
Professor Stevens feels like the bad outweighs the good because even though donuts are sweet and delightful he decides to not like them because the icing simply gets stuck in his beard.
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