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Fragility by Carol Shields - Coggle Diagram
Fragility by Carol Shields
hyberbole
Not in a million zillion years (to show how confident the woman was in her belief that her house was the best and she would never find another great one)
epithet
Ivy and I were feeling exceptionally fragile (to show the feeling of the main characters towards life)
a divorce house (to show Ivy's negative attitude to the first house)
a startling lip of blue water meeting blue sky (to picture the beauty of the first house the couple saw)
simile
watching Ivy read is as interesting as peering down at those snowy mountains (to show the narrator's attitude to his wife)
What an experience, like a queen (the old woman whose son is a famous actor treasures her memories, although most of time she is alone)
metaphor
fine nervous edge of perception, the ability to take in reality afresh (to emphasise that the narrator and hiw wife were a bit tired of life, they went through some harsh situations)
unstoppable circles of grief (shows the feelings of the couple because of their son's illness and death)
Our plane seems a fragile vessel, a piece of jewelry up here between the stars and the mountains (to underline a contrast between people and their fragile lives to the stability of stars and mountains)
antonomasia
lt looks a little like a Jackson Pollock (to underline that mountains looked like Pollock's works - drops)
enumeration
square footage, zoning regulations, mongage schedules, double-car garages, cedar-siding only two years old (to outline how many houses the couple have seen)
a break in the narrative
"I just – " Ivy takes a breath, "l just wanted a lucky house. (to convey Ivy's confusion when she learned about Marge's marriage)
"Oh Lordy," Ivy said and bit her lip. "Of course not. It's only-'' (to show Ivy's sadness when she was thinking about her live in Toronto, her neighbours and friends)