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