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The Gift. Stylistic devices - Coggle Diagram
The Gift. Stylistic devices
similie
sounds like bying a horse at market
metonomy
adopted her in spirit (completely)
orphan train (train transporting orphans)
Lily was on my breast (she was just a baby and also an inconvenience, something heavy)
barbarism
de facto de jure
testy tone (I apologise if my had "tasty tone")
"pauper taint"
metaphor
the gift (her happy life)
rhethorical question
who better to love her than her own mother whose crime was poverty?
hyperboly
alone in the world (intensifying her lonelyness)
epithet
bad blood (questionable origin)
happy-natured _of good behaviour)
idiom
least said, soonest mended (shows character, their manner of speach)