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Fragility, by Carol Shields - Coggle Diagram
Fragility, by Carol Shields
syntactical
parallel construction, repetition (anafora), asyndeton
He might set up a projector and screen them one evening in his living room; he might invite a few friends over, and his wife—who will resemble the Ivy of fifteen years ago—will serve coffee and wedges of cheese cake; these are the Rockies, he’ll say—magnificent, stirring, one of the wonders of the continent.
Here a young man is described. The main character imagines his life, how he is still young and inexperienced and he really has to learn everything and try this life.
repetition
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“Come in, come in,” calls a young woman in faded jeans.
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polysyndeton
And Ivy and Marge Little and I are there, knocking on the door, at nine-thirty in the morning.
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lexical
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epithet
rootless, restless, portable society
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personification
Darkness is falling
show the inevitability, for a more vivid description of the situation