Literary Devices
Upon her kneecap she has printed SMILE, DOCTOR
What is Imagery
Within the jaws of my hemostat is the whole of the evil of the world, the dark concentrate itself, and I shall kill it
What is a compound sentence
The smell of it is in my nostrils. I have caught glimpses of it in the body of the diseased. If only I could tell it.
There upon her foot was a Mississippi Delta brimming with corruption, sending its raw tributaries down beneath her toes
What is a metaphor
I think it must be done by a doctor, one who is through with the love with his technique, who recognizes that….
What is a cumulative sentence
"You are going to be all right," I say to my patient. "We are all going to be all right from now on."
The next day I take the jar to the medical school.
What is narration
Why should he write? Is it vanity that urges him?
What is a rhetorical question
Now-thrust-and clamp-and yes. Got him!
What is a complex sentence
No, it is not the surgeon who is God's darling. He is the victim of vanity. It is the poet who heals with his words, stanches the flow of blood, stills the rattling breath, applies poultice to the scalded flesh.
What is contrast