In that year I had had time to become aware of the meaning of all my father's bitter warnings, had discovered the secret of his
proudly pursed lips and rigid carriage: I had discovered the weight of white people in the world. What rhetorical device is James Baldwin most clearly using in this passage? A. Parallelism B. Metaphor C. Imagery D. Allusion
A Poison Tree is a short and deceptively simple poem about repressing anger and the consequences of doing so. The speaker tells of how they fail to communicate their wrath to their foe and how this continues to grow until it develops into poisonous hatred.
