ART
By Ani
‘“Hence the garb,” said Sharpe, betraying some pride. “The Devil is commonly supposed to be a black man in habiliments of black, playing the fiddle.”’ This is a portrayal of the Devil and how it is often portrayed. The Devil in its human form would be a black man wearing black, playing the violin, but this is the Devil in its true form - a winged, horned creature that still plays the violin.
RHETORIC
By Megan
Device #1
“Whippings were the dessert of failure.”
Page 137
This sentence is using the literary device that we call, a metaphor. It is a metaphor because whippings cannot be a desert, but they can be a result of failure. A metaphor simply calls one thing another; usually something alike to the original subject.
Device #2
“‘Worse than war,’ saith Seneca, ‘is the dreadful waiting for war.’”
Page 159
This shows the literary device, foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is to hint or clue that something will happen. In this case, the sentence refers to the Revolution that is soon to come.
Device #3
“There was word that the pestilence crawled towards the city from the north shore, and that soon, in the alleys, we should be dying of it.”
Page 175
The sentence above displays personification because a pestilence cannot crawl. Personification is when the author gives human like qualities (i.e. thoughts, feelings, etc.) to something non human.
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