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The Gift - Coggle Diagram
The Gift
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detached construction
Her first will be Mabel which keeps two of her old names—May Bell—in a hidden way as it were (to explain a child's name)
parallel construction
It might ease her to see how well the child is getting on, but then again it might increase the longing (to contrast the feelings of a suffering mother)
polysyndenton
In the country between dogs and barb wire and rivers there is no knowing what could befall a little stranger (to underline that the girl was sent into the middle of nowhere)
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epithet
happy-natured, responsive one and refined enough (to outline what kind of child Bassetts wanted)
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rhetorical question
what kind of life can it be in the wilds of Iowa when she was always nervous of a cat even? (to emphase the mother's confidence that her dauther is not happy in Iowa)
anaphora
She goes to school... She ragards tardiness... She is ... She has (to describe Mabel's life in a new family)
inversion
will come a day when I shall be able to pay you for all your trouble (to make her statement sound more prominent)