Question

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What stylistic element is responsible for the comic effect of this line from a novel?

The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it.
(from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)

A-personification

B-diction

C-syntax

D-metaphor

Answer 1

i think it is metaphor

Answer 2

i wanna say syntax

Answer 3

ya i thought that was it too

Answer 4

Help With Another One Please!!!

Which underlying theme of the novel The Displaced Person by Flannery O’Connor is evident in these lines?

She began to imagine a war of words, to see the Polish words and the English words coming at each other, stalking forward, not sentences, just words, gabble gabble gabble, flung out high and shrill and stalking forward and then grappling with each other.

A- the glorification of the past

B- language as an instrument for violence

C- disgust with the world

D- the loneliness of moving workers

Answer 5

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