Read the excerpts from a biography and a memoir about fictional news anchor Melanie Waters. First, identify a way in which both accounts are similar. Then,
explain how the two accounts differ in their use of imagery and figurative language,
Passage
Biography
October 4, 1976, was a crisp autumn day in New York City, but more would
change that day than the leaves on the trees in Central Park. On that evening,
Melanie Waters broke new ground for women in journalism, becoming the
first female to cohost the nightly news on a major network. When she took her
spot on the ABC Evening News next to longtime host Marcus Radner, she also
broke a different barrier - she was now the highest-paid journalist of either
gender, earning a million dollars a year. Waters would only stay on the ABC
Evening News for a year and a half, as Radner never accepted the
arrangement and made his unhappiness clear. By that point, however, Waters
had broken through a brick wall that had kept females out of the newsroom
since the beginning of television