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Joe Alvarez <[log in to unmask]>
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How about "zoom in"? That is what is happening in your description.

Joe Alvarez
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> On Aug 24, 2016, at 8:33 PM, Wesley Britton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I have a question about one passage in Life on the Mississippi. I suspect it
> will be very familiar to many of you.
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> It's the passage where we first get a birds-eye view of a place along the
> river before Twain narrows his focus to one town, then one street, then one
> house, then a sleeping man on a porch.
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> Back in grad school, a professor used a term to define this technique of
> moving from the general to the specific, but I can't figure out now what
> term he meant.
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> Any ideas?
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> Dr. Wesley Britton
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> Author, Beta-Earth Chronicles
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> www.drwesleybritton.com
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