1. Point out examples of figures of speech and explain their appropriateness. (The poem )
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
(Types of figure of speech)
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Paradox
Understatement
Metonymy
Apostrophe
Hyperbole
Synecdoche
Irony
Pun
Euphemism
Epigram
Oxymoron
Antithesis
Litotes
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Circumlocution
Pleonasm

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In the excerpt above why does meursault say that czechoslovakian man got what he deserved ?

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