Strong/Poignant Word Image "It's as if the steady rhythm of our footsteps has put me in hypnotic state and shot me back in time twenty-four years. A helpless, pleasant vagueness has come over me too- the same state of mind, I realize, that I inhabited the entire year following Sylvie's death"
Vocabulary
Aggravated - annoy , cause to become worse. Deriving - deduce a conclusion. Downing - disappear slowly
Rhetorical/Literacy Devices Metaphor: "I flashed on a memory like accidentally breaking an egg in one hand" "We'd been like kids brandishing lightsabers at one another in the schoolyard."
Gordon Rankin, the main character, started to clear out his problems and memories he had with his father. some of his memories vague and not specific.
"It's as if the steady rhythm of our footsteps has put me in hypnotic state and shot me back in time twenty-four years. A helpless, pleasant vagueness has come over me too- the same state of mind, I realize, that I inhabited the entire year following Sylvie's death"
Vocabulary
Aggravated - annoy , cause to become worse.
Deriving - deduce a conclusion.
Downing - disappear slowly
Rhetorical/Literacy Devices
Metaphor:
"I flashed on a memory like accidentally breaking an egg in one hand"
"We'd been like kids brandishing lightsabers at one another in the schoolyard."
Gordon Rankin, the main character, started to clear out his problems and memories he had with his father. some of his memories vague and not specific.