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Fear“The dance with fear fascinates me”

(Roddan 380)

“Learning to accept fear, to take it in without letting it take over is one of the challenges of climbing ice” (Roddan 380)

“Climbing leads me into myself, through my hidden doors, into corners and attics” (380).

“The doorway through fear always appears ominous, locked shut, insurmountable, impossible” (380).

“Fear talks to me, whispers my weakness; it speaks of conditions, of my own mortality—it whispers

“hubris” (Roddan 380)

“Fear sharpens my senses” ( Roddan 380).

“It dances through my body” (380)

“It tunes me” (380).

“It wraps its fingers around my heart and squeezes gently” (Roddan 380).

“The tango with fear makes me wise” (380).

“I learn to welcome fear and the edge it brings me, the whispered warnings, the adrenaline” (380).

Examine the rhetorical elements within the

personal narrative essay.Metaphor, imagery, onamatopoeia, parallelism, repetition, alliteration, allusion, simile, point of view, etc.