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Simile:

Bogart’s fame spread like fire through Port of Spain and hundreds of young men began adoptiong the harboiled Bogartian attitude.

In Elias’s mouth litritcher was the most beautiful word I heard. It sounded like something to eat, something rich like chocolate. pg. 41

“He was like the donkey he had tied in front of his yard, grey and old and silent except when it brayed loudly." pg.26

Imagery:

“George was short and fat. He had a grey moustache and a big belly. He looked harmless enough but he was always muttering to himself and cursing….” pg. 26

“If you want to get a proper picture of Mrs. Bhakcu you must consider a pear as a scale-model. Mrs. Bhaku had so much flesh, in fact, when she held her arms at her sides they looked like marke of parenthesis.” (also a simile)

Irony:

“He bought a sewing machine and some blue and white and brown chalks. But I never could imagine him competing with anyone; and I cannot remember him making a suit.” pg. 10

“One of the miracles of life in Miguel Street was that no one starved.” pg. 114