Methods of Elaboration

"A newspaper reporter gave the Dust Bowl its name."

"To combat the thousands of jackrabbits that overran the Dust Bowl states in 1935, some towns staged 'rabbit drives'"

Which method uses numbers heavily?

"as large as 23,000 insects per acre, according to one estimate"

"Those who inhaled the prairie dust suffered coughing spasms, shortness of breath, asthma, bronchitis and influenza."

Which method uses exemplifies something?

Which method uses figurative language and describes something?

"Beginning with World War I, American wheat harvests flowed like gold as demand boomed"

"a fog of prairie dirt enshrouded landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty and the U.S. Capitol"

Which method is a story?

"Housewives kept busy"

"Texas farmers paid a rainmaker $500 to fire off rockets carrying an explosive mixture to include showers."

"Livestock healthy enough to be butchered could fetch as much as $16 a head,"

 "The ecosystem disruption unleashed plagues of jackrabbits and grasshoppers."

"What the sun left, the grasshoppers took," President Franklin D. Roosevelt said during a fireside chat.

"Sisalkraft proposed covering the farms with waterproof paper, while a N.J. asphalt company suggested paving the Plains"

 "a massive dust storm 2 miles high traveled 2,000 miles before hitting the East Coast on May 11, 1934"

"Dust storms crackled with powerful static electricity."

"The federal government purchased starving livestock for at least $1 a head,"