Once upon a time
Story devices
Imagery
Simile
She describes
Visual Imagery
Fragment
“The misbeats pf my hearts of my heart tailed off like the last muffled flourishes on one of the wooden xylophones made by the Chopi and Tsonga migrant miners”
Pacifism after the capture that the irregular beating have normalized
“Muffled flourishes” picture rhythmic beating that result following Nadine Gordimer’s calmness
Impact
Explanation
Evidence.
he dragged a ladder to the wall, the shining coiled tunnel was just wide enough for his little body to creep in, and with the first fixing of its razor teeth in his knees and hands and head he screamed and struggled deeper into its tangle.
It is making the reader deduce that the boy died.
She is describing how the boy is getting killed by the coiled tunnel so the reader can imagine in a visual way what is happening or how the place looks like.
Laura Angarita, Juanita Acosta