Stylistic devices & narrative point of view in "Loose Change"

"It had begun to feel like acid was being thrown at my exposed skin." (p. 30, ll. 8-9)

• allusion

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

"... she looked to have taken a gentle whack from Tom and Jerry's cartoon frying pan." (p. 31, ll. 2-4)

• metaphor

• personification

• allusion

• ellipsis

"Why pick on a single mother with a nine-year old?" (p. 36, ll. 1-2)

• allusion

• rhetorical question

• pun

• euphemism

"She had the most spectacular eyebrows." (p. 30, l. 20)

• repetition

• contrast

• hyperbole

• antithesis

"... a light briefly came on in those dull eyes ..." (p. 33, 3)

• contrast

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

"... she lived through days as lonely and cold as an open grave." (p. 36, l. 20)

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• irony

"She watched me, frowning; the tiny hairs of her eyebows locking together like Velcro." (p. 37, ll. 31-32)

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• irony

"Cupping her filthy hands round my bone china. Smearing my white linen. (...) Slumping on to my sofa ..." (p. 36, ll. 12-14)

• hyperbole

• parallelism

• euphemism

• pun

"I am not in the habit of making friends with strangers." (p. 30, l. 1 and p. 32, ll. 6-7)

• allusion

• hyperbole

• parallelism

• repetition

"Her Good Samaritan." (p. 36, ll. 24-25)

• allusion

• personification

• simile

• metaphor