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Fragility - Coggle Diagram
Fragility
LEXICAL SDs
antonomasia
It looks a little like a Jackson Pollock (to underline that mountains looked like Pollock's works - drops)
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)
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)
unstoppable circles of grief (shows the feelings of the couple because of their son's illness and death)
epithet
Ivy and I were feeling exceptionally fragile (to show the feeling of the main characters towards life)
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a startling lip of blue water meeting blue sky (to picture the beauty of the first house the couple saw
smile
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)
watching Ivy read is as interesting as peering down at those snowy mountains (to show the narrator's attitude to his wife)
hyperbole
Not in a million zilllion 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)
SYNTACTICAL SDs
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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)
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