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Literary Devices In Sharon Olds 'The Race'

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"The Race" by Sharon Olds the author uses, similes, allusion, and anaphora to deliver and engage the reader to go more deeply into the passage. Not only did the author uses a powerful repetition but the author had an overall meaning to the short story. The overall tone of the short story was delivered to the readers and helped support the literary elements.

Throughout the poem, the author used imagery to deliver an important image to the readers. It states on line 33-35 , " I have seen pictures of women running, their belongings tied in scarves grasped in their firsts. "This imagery is one of a important imagery throughout the poem because it gives the reader an image on how the women is passing everywhere and how much of a commotion their

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