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<span>This excerpt is lonely and mysterious. It is lonely because it sounds like the one speaking is locking their soul or internal feelings into a place of their own, a place of solitude. The mystery comes in because one must slow down and explore their own heart and thoughts. What exactly is it we are looking for inside ourselves?</span>
Answer:
"And then they arrived - the minister's family and all my relatives in a clamor of doorbells and rumpled Christmas packages."- Imagery.
"Robert grunted hello, and I pretended he was not worthy of existence."- Onomatopoeia.
Explanation:
Literary devices are the different techniques that writers use in describing their characters or giving the details of the story. These devices enable better expressions of the ideas and emotions of the writers and their own styles of presenting the story.
In the first sentence, Amy Tan's description of the guests who arrived <em>"in a clamor of doorbells and rumpled Christmas packages"</em> uses <u>imagery</u> in describing them. It appeals to the sense of sight and sound, appealing to the readers' senses.
Moreover, the word <em>"grunted" </em>in the second sentence is an <u>onomatopoeia</u>, where the word is derived from the sound it produces.
Answer:
The phrase "just words on a piece of paper" basically means that whatever is on that paper has no value. In other words, the writing/words on that piece of paper essentially have no significance to the person reading it.
Explanation:
Hope this helps! (Another example is that whatever is on that paper has no meaning and is just meaningless)
