Different Cultures Cluster 2

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Search For My Tongue

~ plant as extended metaphor
~ it's main theme is language
~ lines 17-29 have a change of language and structure
~ repetition
~ enjambment

from Unrelated Incidents

~ non-Standard English to show accent/dialect
~ very little punctuation
~ main theme is prejudice
~ slang used
~ repetition
~ exagguration

Half-Caste

~ no punctuation
~ repetition
~ non-Standard English
~ rhetorical questions
~ metaphors

Love After Love

~ imperatives
~ enjambement
~ imagery
~ repetition
~ short sentences

This Room

~ onomatopoeia
~ enjambement
~ food
~ body parts
~ punctuated so slowed down

Not My Business

~ set structure which changes on last stanza
~ rhetorical questions
~ repetition
~ punctuation
~ names to show context