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Summary Of Other Side Of The Sky By Ahmedi

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In the story “Other Side of the sky” Ahmedi used sensory language or imagery to make her story more powerful she did this by using vivid details to describe her and her mother’s experience while trying to cross the border and the use of her sesquipedalian words. (Also known as big words.) Ahmedi used vivid details to make her story have more power, by describing things to make them more interesting. The text says “My mother was clutching her side and gasping for breath, trying to keep up.” This is showing some vivid detail describing her mothers feelings on the hike they went on to get to the other side of the border. Because the guards were not opening the gates Ahmedi and her mother kept getting pushed around and would have eventually gotten

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