| Figures
of speech |
1.rhetorical
question:
1)
P17 What on earth did one put on to go to Mrs. Flowers’
house?
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2.
onomatopoeia
1) P10 They were interrupted from time to time by giggles
that must have come from Mrs. Flowers.
2) P 11 Like the women
who sat in front of roaring fireplaces, ….
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3.
hyperbole:
1)
P15 She smiled that slow dragging smile.
2) P27 Children these days would bust out
of sheetmetal clothes.
3) P31 Momma hadn’t thought that taking off
my dress in front of Mrs. Flowers would kill me stone
dead.
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4.
metaphor:
1)
P14 One summer afternoon, sweet-milk fresh in my memory,
she stopped at the Store to buy provisions.
2) P17 The chifforobe was
a maze.
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5.
simile:
1)
P1 For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store,
the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty
and inedible.
2) P3 Her skin was
a rich black that would have peeled like a plum if snagged,
but …
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6.
antithesis:
1)
P10 … I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the textured
voice of my grandmother merging and melting.
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7.
alliteration:
1)
P10 … I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the textured
voice of my grandmother merging and melting.
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8.
transferred epithet
1)
P11 Like women in English novels who walk the moors with
their loyal dogs racing at a respectful distance. |
9.
metonymy
1)
P27 Through the cloth film, I saw the shadow approach.
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10.
allusion
1)
P13 … and my image of her would have been shattered like
the unmendable Humpty-Dumpty.
2) P29 Pride is a sin. And according to the Good Book,
it goeth before a fall.
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11.
parallelism
1)
P11 Like women in English novels who walked the moors
with their loyal dogs racing at a respectful distance.
Like the women who sat in front of roaring fireplaces,
…. Women who walked over the “heath” and read … |
12.
personification
1)
P10 But they talked, and from the side of the building
where I waited for the ground to open up and swallow me,
I heard … |
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