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FIGURES OF SPEECH
» Allusion: A reference to something else, such as a work of literature, specifically Declaration of Independence.
» Metaphor: A comparison of two different things that show how they're the same; they do NOT use the words 'like' or 'as'.
» Personification: A type of metaphor in which nonliving and nonhuman things are given human characteristics/abilities.
» Simile: A comparison of two different things that use the words 'like' or 'as' to show how they're similar.
» Hyperbole: Figure of speech that uses exaggeration for emphasis.
» Irony: A figure of speech in which words convey the opposite of their literal meaning of a situation contrary to what one would expect.
» Paradox: A statement that appears to contradict itself but can be true.
ABSOLUTE PHRASE
» An absolute phrase is a descriptive phrase that modifies an entire clause.
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The author has used rhetorical devices like parallelism to emphasize the miserable and hopeless condition of the migrants who were despised and hated but had no option but to swarm the town to fight hunger and survive.
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The chapter talks about the agrarians who were ruined by industrialization. Industries and technology pushed them on the roads. They moved in search of food and to give their families a meal to survive.
Parallelism has been employed at places to underline the misery, the dejection and distress.
For instance, in one of the paragraphs, just to stress on the simplicity of the agrarian folks before they were brought near to doom: ‘a simple agrarian folk who had not changed …….. who had not farmed. They had not grown up….’
This repetition of phrases and clauses is parallelism. The chapter is replete with such examples. It lends it unity and realism and appeals to emotions.
Chainbearer, Redskins, and Satanstoe are the novels in the Littlepage trilogy.
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