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1.
hyperbole
1)
P8 Death would be too kind and brief.
2) P13 I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take
it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.
3) P15 With the cold lemonade they were sufficient for
childhood’s lifelong diet.
4) P18 I knew from listening to a thousand preachers that
she was nearing the end of her reading, and I hadn’t really
heard, heard to understand, a single word.
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2.
personification
1) P10 The sweet scent of vanilla had met us as she opened
the door.
2) P13 Browned photographs
leered or threatened from the walls and …
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3.
parallelism:
1)
P16 She said that I must always be …. That some people,
… That in those homely sayings …
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4.
antithesis:
1)
P16 She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance
but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable
to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent
than college professors.
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5.
analogy:
1)
P23 To be allowed, no, invited, into the private lives
of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a
chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a
cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk
with Oliver Twist.
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6.
allusion:
1)
P23 “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have
ever done …”
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