Simile
“Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger will always find a woman”
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Metaphor
“Unlike weeds, I had to be replanted, you see, given food and water”
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Irony
“May God grant you a long and prosperous life, my daughter. May God give you many healthy and beautiful children."
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Symbolism
“Each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world.”
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Allusion
“And I’m Moshe Dayan”
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Repetition
“Its normal, isn’t it? Isn’t it? Isn’t it normal?”
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Alliteration
“Brief little bursts of blinding light”
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Hyperbole
“Regret…..When it comes to you, Mariam Jo, I have oceans of it”
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Consonance
“Casually….it acknowledged their connection, crystallized it.”
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Imagery
"Mariam had her first glimpse of Rasheed: the big, square, ruddy face; the hooked nose; the flushed cheeks that gave the impression of sly cheerfulness; the watery, bloodshot eyes; the crowded teeth, the front two pushed together like a gabled roof; the impossibly low hairline, barely two finger widths above the bushy eyebrows; the wall of thick, coarse salt-and-pepper hair."
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