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Homework due 12/4/17

12/1/2017

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Pick one of the literary device examples you found in your work today and write a brief statement explaining what it adds to the text. Be sure to:
  • Identify the literary device.
  • Explain how it enhances/adds to the text. Consider: Why did the author choose to use a literary device in this instance?

Ex: When Rushdie describes the buildings of the sad city as looking “like broken hearts” (Rushdie 15) he uses simile to express that the city and its people are emotionally and physically in a depressing place. Not only do the people suffer from emotional sadness, but their homes reflect the dismalness of their existences.

Samples from the Text:
  • "Haroun often thought of his father as a Juggler, because his stories were really lots of different tales juggled together..." (Rushdie 16)
  • If you live in a sad city you know unhappiness when you run into it. You can smell it on the night air, when the fumes of cars and trucks have faded away and the moon makes everything look clearer." (Rushdie 42)
  • " 'So,' thought Haroun, filled with wonder, 'there really are Plentimaw Fish in the Sea, just as old Snooty Buttoo said..." (Rushdie 85)
  • "'The poison is so concentrated here that it behaves like a powerful acid,'" (Rushdie 147)
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