language features: |
Effect on the reader: |
Imagery:
"I might still be floating in heaven." [pg...] |
This is saying that if she wasn't born she would still be floating in heaven.
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Hyperbole/Imagery:
"ripping the seam of the sky" [pg 80] |
It creates such an un real overly exaggerate imaginative thought for the reader.
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metaphor The room is a sea of dirty clothes and magazines and
leftover Chinese take-out cartons. page 14 |
metaphorHer voice is a feather, a thread
page 70 |
metaphorWhen she is tied to the bed, I am her eyes and ears.
page |
metaphorShame is five-fingered. page 64 |