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David Johnson Visual Imagery

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The author, David Johnson, uses visual imagery to show that practice and preparation leads to success.In the story the author, uses words such as " steadied my breething," to show that he was somewhere nervous but started calming himself down and getting ready to run the play. This evidence proves that the player was feeling nervous, however he had a role to play in the team, so he was trying to calmed himself down by controlling his breathing and focusing on performing the play. This lets the audience know that the player eventhough he is nervous he is showing a great deal of loyalty towards the team. " My legs twitched, my eyes focused..." " I could almost hear coach 's familiar words, " that 's it, fight pressure. Don 't let him set the

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