Stylistic devices: Apply your knowledge to Salman Rushdie's /In the South/

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Stylistic devices: Apply your knowledge to Salman Rushdie's /In the South/lite
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Question 1

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(Note: This is the first paragraph of Rushdie's short story. Just read it and enter a single dot (".") as answer.) Salman Rushdie – In the South The day that Junior fell down began like any other day: the explosion of heat rippling the air, the trumpeting sunlight, the traffic’s tidal surges, the prayer chants in the distance, the cheap film music rising from the floor below, the loud pelvic thrusts of an “item number” dancing across a neighbor’s TV, a child’s cry, a mother’s rebuke, unexplained laughter, scarlet expectorations, bicycles, the newly plaited hair of schoolgirls, the smell of strong sweet coffee, a green wing flashing in a tree. Senior and Junior, two very old men, opened their eyes in their bedrooms on the fourth floor of a sea-green building on a leafy lane, just out of sight of Elliot’s Beach, where, that evening, the young would congregate, as they always did, to perform the rites of youth, not far from the village of the fisherfolk, who had no time for such frivolity. The poor were puritans by night and day. As for the old, they had rites of their own and did not need to wait for evening. With the sun stabbing at them through their window blinds, the two old men struggled to their feet and lurched out onto their adjacent verandas, emerging at almost the same moment, like characters in an ancient tale, trapped in fateful coincidences, unable to escape the consequences of chance. […] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/05/18/in-the-south
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Question 2

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the *explosion* of heat rippling the air
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  • metaphor
  • personification
  • idiom
  • irony

Question 3

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the explosion of heat *rippling* the air
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  • metaphor
  • personification
  • idiom
  • irony

Question 4

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the *trumpeting* sunlight
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  • metaphor
  • exagegration
  • idiom
  • diction/choice of words

Question 5

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the traffic’s *tidal* surges
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  • idiom
  • pars pro toto
  • metaphor
  • personification

Question 6

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the cheap film music *rising* from the floor below
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  • idiom
  • personification
  • simile
  • metaphor

Question 7

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the *loud pelvic thrusts* of an “item number” dancing across a neighbor’s TV
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  • personification
  • irony
  • synecdoche/pars pro toto
  • metaphor

Question 8

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the *newly plaited hair* of schoolgirls
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  • personification
  • synecdoche/pars pro toto
  • metaphor
  • simile

Question 9

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*a green wing* flashing in a tree
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  • synecdoche/pars pro toto
  • metaphor
  • simile
  • irony

Question 10

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a green wing *flashing* in a tree
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  • synecdoche
  • metaphor
  • diction/choice of words
  • simile

Question 11

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Senior and *Junior*, two very old men
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  • synecdoche
  • diction/choice of words
  • irony
  • metaphor

Question 12

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a sea-green building on a *leafy* lane
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  • synecdoche/pars pro toto
  • metaphor
  • idiom
  • simile

Question 13

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*a sea-green building on a leafy lane*
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  • imagery
  • metaphor
  • simile
  • synecdoche

Question 14

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the young would *congregate*
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  • pars pro toto
  • idiom
  • metaphor
  • simile

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who had no time for such *frivolity*
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  • irony
  • idiom
  • diction/choice of words
  • metaphor

Question 16

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The poor were *puritans* by night and day.
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  • simile
  • personification
  • exaggeration
  • irony

Question 17

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As for the old, they had *rites of their own* and did not need to wait for evening.
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  • irony
  • metaphor
  • simile
  • pars pro toto

Question 18

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As for the old, they had rites of their own and *did not need to wait for evening*.
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  • metaphor
  • irony
  • idiom
  • personification

Question 19

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With *the sun* stabbing at them
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  • personification
  • synecdoche/pars pro toto
  • idiom
  • metaphor

Question 20

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With the sun *stabbing* at them
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  • personification
  • idiom
  • irony
  • metaphor

Question 21

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the two old men *struggled* to their feet and *lurched* out onto their adjacent verandas
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  • metaphor
  • simile
  • diction/ choice of words
  • irony

Question 22

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*emerging at almost the same moment*, like characters in an ancient tale
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  • metaphor
  • simile
  • synecdoche
  • irony

Question 23

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emerging at almost the same moment, *like characters in an ancient tale*
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  • metaphor
  • description
  • simile
  • irony

Question 24

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*trapped* in *fateful* coincidences
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  • diction/choice of words
  • metaphor
  • idiom
  • understatement

Question 25

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*unable to escape the consequences of chance*
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  • metaphor
  • simile
  • idiom
  • irony

Question 26

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Which king of narrator does Rushie use?
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  • first-person reliable narrator
  • third person omniscient narrator
  • first-person unreliable narrator
  • third-person limited narrator

Question 27

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Which sentence would be the best thesis statement for a paragraph in an analysis?
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  • 1. The author uses many metaphors and other stylistic devices.
  • 2. The author uses many stylistic devices like metaphors, similies and irony.
  • 3. The author uses the setting to create a dense, colourful atmosphere.
  • 4. The author wants to confuse the reader by providing a deluge of details.

Question 28

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Which sentence would be the best thesis statement for a paragraph in an analysis?
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  • The author creates a benevolent distance to the protagonists.
  • The author intends to put the protagonists through a series of cruel events.
  • The author dislikes his protagonist, especially their age.
  • The author is completely neutral about his main characters.
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