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Identify the literary device(s) at work in each quotation.
These are from the first chapter of the novel.
Note the effect that it has on developing the novelâs mood, tone, character(s), or theme.
This can be done in point-form.
1. âWe are approaching the western edge of Lawrence Avenue bridge, a monster of reinforced concrete over two hundred yards in lengthâ(Chariandry 5).
Personification
The author is explaining where the story takes place and he describes the Lawrence Avenue bridge as âa monster of reinforced concreteâ, he is personifying the bridge.
2. âBullets of slush smattering upon the bedroom windowâ(7).
3. â...the trowel-thick application of Brylcreem in his hair, as artificial as the black snap-on do of Lego Manâ(10)
4. âThere was tenderness in the dishes she prepared, love in a dish made perfect with the fruity bite of Scotch bonnetâ(10).
5. âHer voice, schooled in the Queenâs English, now articulating threats mined from the deepest hells of historyâ(11).
6. âI will strap your backside red if I come back to find you or your brother hurtâ(11).
7. âFrancis and I each served out long sentences in classrooms beneath the chemical hum of white fluorescent lights, in part out of fear of our mother, who warned us, upon pain of something worse than death, not to squander âour only chanceââ(14).
8. âFrancis could read our motherâ(17).
9. âA specific site in the bus loop at Kennedy Station when exhaustion closes in and the limbs feel like meat, and it takes every last strength from a mother to make two additional bus transfers homeâ(17).
10. âThere was my hair, which, unlike his, was fundamentally indecisive, forever caught in that no manâs zone between Afro and hockey mulletâ(21).
11. âNature carrying on like the sort of thug you only hear aboutâ(25).
12. â...the buildings I had known all my life were changed. The stucco of a low-rise looked like the sole of an unwashed child; the rust on the balcony railings and fire exits of an apartment tower looked ugly and contagious, a bubbling rashâŚâ(31).
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