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¨Even though I knew these high-minded arguments would get me nowhere, I tried them anyways-- Martin Luther King would be ashamed!-- and they made the three girls shriek with laughter as they pushed me to the ground.¨ (Walls 141)
a) She uses allusion and symbolism to emphasize the

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Jeannette's mother Rosemary had considerable wealth that could have fed and clothed her children and provided a home for them, but she felt she needed to hold on to this property.  This irony is foreshadowed by the children's discovery of a diamond ring.

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"You mean you own land worth a million dollars?" I was thunderstruck. All those years in Welch with
no food, no coal, no plumbing, and Mom had been sitting on land worth a million dollars? Had all
those years, as well as Mom and Dad's time on the street—not to mention their current life in an
abandoned tenement—been a caprice inflicted on us by Mom? Could she have solved our financial
problems by selling this land she never even saw? But she avoided my questions, and it became clear
that to Mom, holding on to land was not so much an investment strategy as it was an article of faith, a
revealed truth as deeply felt and incontestable to her

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Mom insisted Maureen had not actually been trying to kill her--"She just became confused and upset", she said--but the wounds required stitches, and he police arrested Maureen
a.) This quote uses dashes at the beginning and end of the sentence to give emphasis on the fact that her mothers wounds are not Maureen's fault
b.) I could use dashes in my memoir to give emphasis on short ideas and fragments to make them more meaningfu

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Quote: "'You mean you own land worth a million dollars?' I was thunderstruck. All those years in Welch with
no food, no coal, no plumbing, and Mom had been sitting on land worth a million dollars?" (Walls 172)
a) Walls uses a type of irony here in revealing information that flips everything on its head. She also uses asyndeton and parallel structure to emphasize how they went without everything for so long when Jeannette's mom could've easily afforded it.
b) Bringing up conversations that change situations near the end or after the fact could be utilized for nearly any event. I could likely hide information for a while then bring it up near the end to completely change the reader's perception.

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All those years in Welch with no food, no coal, no plumbing, and Mom had been sitting  on a land a land worth a million dollars.

a) This quote has anaphora in it to emphasize the struggles they went through along with tricolon to give the sentence rythem in order to further emphasis how bad it was in there past and that it could have been avoided.
b) I could use these technique in my writing by I could asyndeton in order to

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 Tim Behrer and Ben Brandt                        I pushed the needle and felt a slight tug when it pierced the skin. I wanted to close my eyes, but I needed to see. I pushed a little harder and felt the resistance of Dad's flesh. It was like sewing meat. It was sewing meat. "(184)

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 Tim Behrer and Ben Brandt                        I pushed the needle and felt a slight tug when it pierced the skin. I wanted to close my eyes, but I needed to see. I pushed a little harder and felt the resistance of Dad's flesh. It was like sewing meat. It was sewing meat. "(184)

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a) In this quote, Walls uses intentional fragments to explain and amplify the meaning behind her actions. By removing the word 'like' from the second sentence, Walls emphasizes that it isn't just like sewing meat, she was actually sewing meat.
b) Jeanette uses fig. lang. in this quote to exemplify the action that she was doing and what it consists of the makes it so hard to do. When she says that her dads arm is meat it says that her dad want her to think of his arm as just a piece of flesh wi

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Quote: '"Good for you," Mom said when she saw me cooking. "You've got to get right back in the saddle . You can't live in fear of something as basic as fire"' '(Walls 15).
(a) Walls uses situational irony to show that her mom didn't get worried or scared that her daughter might do make the same exact mistake. Usually a mom wouldn't let their three year old cook hot dogs in boiling water so Jeanette's mom is not doing the intended result of her daughter catching on fire days before. This quote helps to show that her mom is not a responsible

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Quote: '"Just remember," Mom said after examining the blisters. "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
"If that was true, I'd be Hercules by now," Lori said.'
Walls employs a creative metaphor that Lori ironically references when she gets blistered up. In direct sardonic response to her mother's cheeriness, she calls herself less than Hercules.

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Quote: "Frozen with fear, I watched the yellow-white flames make a ragged brown line up the pink fabric of my skirt and climb my stomach. Then the flames leaped up, reaching my face."

a.) Wall's uses fire as a motif throughout the book, this is its first appearance in the book
b.) I could use a motif in my memoir by having something consistently reappear

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"She hugged all of us except Dad--she had refused to speak a word to him since he plundered Oz--promised to write, and climbed into the station wagon."

She uses Tricolonn and dashes to create a more interesting structure and bring out the situation behind her relationship with her dad. This characterizes the dad Rex as a bad person and breaks down the relationship between daughter and father.

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Quote: "After ducking down in the taxi so Mom wouldn't see me, I hated myself—hated my antiques, my clothes, and my apartment. I had to do something, so I called a friend of Mom's and left a message."
a) Walls uses dashes, tricolons, and parallel structure in this quote. The dashes are used to emphasize how she thought of herself and how her mother would see her. She uses parallel structure/ tricolons to give a more in depth example to explain why she feels the way she does.

b) I could use dashes to to explain what i'm feeling by using examples to characterize. I can use tricolons and parallel structure to have examples stand out to show their importance.

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Quote: "Six months later Maureen stabbed Mom. It happened after Mom decided it was time for Maureen to develop a little self-sufficiency by moving out and finding a place of her own." (Walls 268)
(a) Walls uses an understatement by glossing over the stabbing and acting like it was no biggie. Her mom didn't understand the things wrong with Maureen, and therefore didn't believe the stabbing was such a big deal.
(b) I could use understatement in my own memoir by glossing over something that seems important to make the situation ironic and to give it tone.

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Quote: I had what Mom called distinctive looks. That was one way of putting it. I was nearly six feet tall, pale as a frog's underbelly, and had bright red hair. My elbows were like flying wedges and my knees like tea saucers. But my most prominent feature--my worst --was my teeth.
(a) She uses indirect characterization by describing herself. She uses a lot of simalies in a list to make the quote impact. She uses dashes to show that

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Quote: "I assumed it was a bottle of booze, but then he opened the paper bag and turned it upside down. Hundreds of dollar bills--ones, fives, tens, twenties, all wrinkled and worn--spilled into my lap" (Walls 264/167).

(a) Walls uses dashes, situational irony (Rex having money in a brown bag, rather than alcohol as everyone would suspect), and asyndeton in this quote. She uses the dashes to allow her to put a section of descriptive asyndeton in the middle of a sentence. They asyndeton helps convey just how shocked Jeannette was by the money and just how much there was.

(b) I could use dashes and asyndeton in my own writing to emphasize a visual detail. Maybe the visual detail helps to characterize me or another character in the memoir or maybe it helps to develop an object that I want to be a symbol in my memoir.

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"So, when I enrolled for my final year at Barnard, I paid what I owed on my tuition with Dad's wadded, crumpled bills" (Walls 265/167).

(a) Walls uses symbolism here: she refers back to a memorable image from the middle of the vignette (the wadded, crumpled bills) that reinforces the irony of her parents paying her tuition while still homeless. The symbol represents the way her father's sincerest efforts to help her are sometimes successful. But even when they're successful (she gets the $), they're still unique and weird, like her dad (she gets the $, but the $ is dirty and wrinkled).

(b) I could create symbolism in my memoir by ending the memoir with a brief reference to a key image established earlier in the memoir.

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Quote: "'It's sort of the city's fault,' Mom told me. 'They make it too easy to be homeless. If it was really unbearable, we'd do something different'" (Walls 264/167).

(a) Walls uses vernacular and understatement in this quote as a way of characterizing her mother and setting up the situational irony that plays out in the rest of the vignette.

(b) I could imitate this in my own writing by using a short snippet of dialogue, with vernacular specific to a character in my memoir, to establish a character at the start of the memoir and to foreshadow later ideas or events.