Anna Quindlen is a renowned columnist from the Newsweek magazine. She is very well known by her articles as well as being a feminist; Quindlen has an effective writing style, and uses a lot of components to make it effective. We are going to be analyzing three of them: allusions, sarcasm, and the interrogation points used by the columnist.
             Reading Anna Quindlen's articles I observed the use of two or three allusions in every article she wrote. All of them are opulent in details and support. The use of these allusions by Anna makes her point stronger, like in the article "An open hand, a closed fist," she uses the author Samantha Power and her experience in Bosnia to point out how the US is willing to help other nations, but how its foreign policy doesn't help at all. Also, the allusions give Anna enough support and reasoning to expose her ideas, like in the article "A leap into the possible," she mentions the story of Barack Obama, America's third black senator; she uses his story to expose national security, by saying that if back then was like nowadays his parents would have been kept out of the country like many are today.
             One other characteristic of the columnist that I've observed is that she asks questions throughout her articles. In my opinion, these questions without answers add more intensity to Anna's arguments, with an ironic tone to them, the questions vivify her arguments and she uses it quite often; in all the four articles I read in fact. The best example I can possibly mention is in the article "Mortal Kombat, election level" Anna Quindlen starts: Civilian beheadings or the future of Dan Rather," then she follows "... let's see, which one should head the news?" A perfect example of the type of irony uses by the columnist, in this case, talking about Iraq.
             The last characteristic of Anna Quindlen's writing that I w
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