English, 12.03.2021 04:50, abagailb03

HELP ME WITH THIS 50+ POINTS I'LL ALSO MAKE U THE BRAINLIEST Identify the literary device(s) at work in each quotation.
These are from the first chapter of the novel.
Note the effect that it has on developing the novel’s mood, tone, character(s), or theme.
This can be done in point-form.

1. “We are approaching the western edge of Lawrence Avenue bridge, a monster of reinforced concrete over two hundred yards in length”(Chariandry 5).
Personification
The author is explaining where the story takes place and he describes the Lawrence Avenue bridge as “a monster of reinforced concrete”, he is personifying the bridge.
2. “Bullets of slush smattering upon the bedroom window”(7).

3. “...the trowel-thick application of Brylcreem in his hair, as artificial as the black snap-on do of Lego Man”(10)

4. “There was tenderness in the dishes she prepared, love in a dish made perfect with the fruity bite of Scotch bonnet”(10).

5. “Her voice, schooled in the Queen’s English, now articulating threats mined from the deepest hells of history”(11).

6. “I will strap your backside red if I come back to find you or your brother hurt”(11).

7. “Francis and I each served out long sentences in classrooms beneath the chemical hum of white fluorescent lights, in part out of fear of our mother, who warned us, upon pain of something worse than death, not to squander ‘our only chance’”(14).

8. “Francis could read our mother”(17).

9. “A specific site in the bus loop at Kennedy Station when exhaustion closes in and the limbs feel like meat, and it takes every last strength from a mother to make two additional bus transfers home”(17).

10. “There was my hair, which, unlike his, was fundamentally indecisive, forever caught in that no man’s zone between Afro and hockey mullet”(21).

11. “Nature carrying on like the sort of thug you only hear about”(25).

12. “...the buildings I had known all my life were changed. The stucco of a low-rise looked like the sole of an unwashed child; the rust on the balcony railings and fire exits of an apartment tower looked ugly and contagious, a bubbling rash…”(31).

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