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the island floated green on the Indian Ocean
Imagery
He laughed too loudly
Indirect characterization
Dawn through a garden. Clarity to leaves, fruit, the dark yellow of the King coconut
Imagery
This is a drink which smells like raw rubber and is the juice drained from the flower of a coconut
Simile
I grew up on the edge of the Jungle
Setting
They danced in large living rooms to the music of a Bijou-Moutrie piano
hyperbole
he invited them in, being able to offer them only champagne at 11 in the morning
Irony
Faces pink and frozen
Alliteration
Books and sweaters and golf clubs and rifles were packed into trunks.
Polysyndeton
People's memory of Gasawana... are mythic
Tone
A hand... A foot... They could have drown or fallen in love
Anaphora
I saw mosquito nets stranded in the air like the dresses of hanged brides
Symbolism
We are all chattering away like crows and cranes
Simile
Something tightened in her laughter
Subtext
The air reaches me unevenly with its gusts against my arms, face and this paper.
Personification
heat gradually left me
symbolism (heat being a source of animation)
They stood in my memory like a frozen opera
Metaphor
women fought each other like polecats over certain men
Simile (social commentary)
Charlie Caplin was in Ceylon
Allusion
Asia. The name was a gasp from a dying mouth
Metaphor