Rhetorical Devices Used By Eugenia Collier

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Have you ever wondered how lightning bugs of fireflies light up? They do it by chemical reactions take place, energy is either absorbed or released. In certain special cases energy can be released, or emitted, as light. The author of Marigold, Eugenia Collier has a voice in her writing. Even so her characters in the story have a limited vocabulary she is still able to very descriptive and strong words. Her voice can be categorizes in four ways: diction, syntax, tone, and imagery. Eugenia Collier diction is very expressive and robust in this short story, despite having characters that speak in southern drawl. The arm-chair and the man’s face on the woman represents the psycho that Leper. When leper returns from the war he says he has seen