English Quotes The Secret River

Quote for personification?

“Winter wore away, and there it was at last, his whole name: William Thornhill, slow and steady.. no one would know how long it took, and how many times the tongue had to be drawn back in.”

His tongue drawing in.

Quote for repetition?

“There were no signs that the blacks felt the place belonged to them. They had no fences that said this is mine. No houses that said this is our home.”

Repeating of ‘no’.

Quote for metonym?

“Thornhill’s at the bottom up to the King, or God, at the top, each man higher than one, lower than another.”

God replaces king as a ‘better’ word.

What is a metonymy?

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a word or term is used to replace or represent another closely related word or term.