Quote → Techinique Flashcards
“we’re just objects, cages animals in a zoo”
Metaphor
Extended metaphor
“Brother, have you grown up in cotton wool?”
Imagery
Rhetorical question
“Stolen your soul, painted it white”
Metaphor
Imagery
“The pattern of squares painted on the street looked like the wire mesh of a cage.”
Simile
“We’ve got to fight back. Otherwise we’re doomed, brother. Doomed.”
Repetition
“Brother, you’re blind.”
Metaphor
Hyperbole
“stolen our land, degraded our culture…dispossessed us of our dignity…pushed us into slums, taken away our language, used us as cheap labour [and] discriminated against us in courts”
Listing
“Bloody Yanks!”
“White bitch”
“Uncle Tom”
Derogatory language
Swearing
“Even you will join us against the white man.”
“In the end, brother, even you will join us.”
Repetition
“All over the world the black people are rising against [the white man], pushing down the cages he’s shoved them into.”
Imagery
“Who else could it have been except a bloody yank?”
“You scared to get your Pakeha clothes dragged through the shit?”
Rhetorical questions
“Suddenly, shouting.”
Minor/incomplete sentence
Sibilance
Short and separate paragraph
