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Rhetorical Devices In 35/10

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Throughout 35/10, Sharon Olds uses imagery and a depressing tone to show the contrasting physical characteristics between the mother and daughter. In the first sentence, imagery is used to describe colors of hair. This use imagery shows how the mother is upset about her daughter growing up, and it makes the reader empathize with the mother. Sharon Olds also uses words that have many different connotations such as when mother refers to the daughter as having a "purse full of eggs." The mother does not mean that her daughter's purse is filled with actual eggs, rather she is saying her daughter has plenty of eggs that are viable for reproduction. As the mother is aging, the daughter is only beginning to grow, and the mother knows that inevitably

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