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Karina Putri Ghaisani Yudawan

Topic: "Bookshelf"

Instructor Evaluation & Breakdown

This submission represents the pinnacle of the assignment. The literary piece brilliantly employs evocative personification and tactile imagery ("pine shelves sag just slightly", "phantom presence of the reader"), while the non-literary text delivers precise architectural measurements, categorized media distribution, and structural physics load analysis.

Literary Style

"My bookshelf stands in silence in the corner of my room, cradles books, paper, and other things through the generations. Its pine shelves sag just slightly under the weight of bent books whose spines have been split open by constant reading, dog-eared paperbacks, and folded printed photos. Dust accumulated over time, just as the books on the shelf began to yellow as life goes on. Each row holding its book, keeping the ink inside the book—not just any books, but the phantom presence of the reader who ever turned a page."

Non-Literary Style

"The bookshelf is a vertical, four-tiered storage, built from fine wood. Measuring approximately 190 cm in height and 70 cm in width. It has at least five bottom drawers and four-tiered shelves. The structure holds a variety of media, including novels, academic modules, and binder. The total weight of the books made visible minor deflections on the middle shelves caused by the downward force of the stored books."

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