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How are you going to pay?

The Visit, pg47 — Beginning of Ill’s anxiety; implicit assumptions of villagers; impending murder; complicity; interrogative structure.

Mayor: ‘Here’s your train.’ All: ‘Your train! Your train!’

The Visit, pg62 — Group behavior isolates Ill; repetition, Chorus, and staging emphasize his exclusion.

The world turned me into a whore. I shall turn the world into a brothel.

The Visit, pg68 — Vengeance, systemic sexism; syntactic parallelism emphasizes reversal.

For me, it will be justice; what it will be for you I do not know.

The Visit, pg82 — Ill accepts fate; townspeople's moral blindness; echoes sacrifice theme; syntactic parallelism.

A silent knot of men

The Visit — Ill’s isolation via staging; townspeople shown as unified, faceless, and complicit.

The town’s getting ready to celebrate my murder, [and I’m dying of terror!]

The Visit, pg58 — Ill’s rising fear; townspeople’s hypocrisy; gruesome imagery and juxtaposition.

I feel like I’m seeing it for the first time

The Visit, pg84 — Simile shows Ill’s transformation and estrangement from home.

[we’ve agreed to nominate you as] my successor

The Visit, pg16 — Ill’s past popularity; transition to social scapegoat; society vs individual.

Give me that homicidal weapon here

The Visit, pg75 — Farcical tone; reporter’s obliviousness foreshadows Ill’s death.

We are not moved by money

The Visit — Irony; townspeople clearly are motivated by money; hypocrisy and false principles.

If you talk, we’ll have to act accordingly.

The Visit — Euphemism; vague threat and coercion.

I can feel myself slowly becoming a murderer

The Visit — The schoolmaster reflects guilt and complicity in Ill’s fate.

Papa’s title was omelora … The One Who Does for the Community

Purple Hibiscus, pg56 — Ironic; contrast between public respect and private abuse.

Defiance is like Marijuana – it is not a bad thing when it is used right

Purple Hibiscus, pg144 — Ifeoma’s liberal view; simile promotes controlled resistance.

We all stayed silent and listened to the ‘Ave Maria’

Purple Hibiscus, pg31 — Reflects hyper-religious home atmosphere; auditory imagery and symbolism.

Mama’s ‘Amen!’ resounded through the room

Purple Hibiscus, pg32 — Auditory imagery; shows Mama’s performative compliance and tension.

my small ship has no hope of a harbor

Medea, pg12 — Nautical imagery and metaphor show Medea’s loss of home and safety.

they [men] can’t be trusted

Medea, pg25 — Chorus supports Medea; declarative shows gender imbalance.

So take your revenge, Medea

Medea, pg19 — Chorus initially supports Medea’s violent intent.

such an atrocity

Medea, pg54 — Chorus shifts; powerful noun condemns Medea’s actions.

[Jason] crawls off.

Medea, pg60 — Staging emphasizes Medea’s triumph and Jason’s literal/figurative fall.

love and madness // Go always together

Medea, pg25 — Juxtaposition reveals destructive power of love.

Gleaming with the mouths of corpses.

Plath, “Childless Woman” — Gruesome visual imagery; reflects society’s contempt for childless women and internalized self-loathing.

Taste it, dark red!

Plath, “Childless Woman” — Exclamative and visual imagery; conveys anger and menstrual/blood symbolism.

As no mere insurgent man could hope to break

Plath, “Spinster” — Men’s emotional inadequacy; cold, rigid structure.

Ice and rock; each sentiment within border,

Plath, “Spinster” — Controlled emotional landscape; cold metaphors reflect repression.

are you our sort of a person?

Plath, “The Applicant” — Interrogative tone; critiques conformity and gender roles in marriage.

Will you marry it, marry it, marry it.

Plath, “The Applicant” — Repetition and dehumanization; satire on arranged roles and objectification.

Daddy, daddy, you bastard I'm through.

Plath, “Daddy” — Cathartic release; finality of speaker’s emotional break; expletive marks rebellion.

There’s a stake in your fat black heart

Plath, “Daddy” — Violent imagery; gothic metaphor for personal and patriarchal trauma.

In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman // Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

Plath, “Mirror” — Loss of youth; metaphor and simile depict aging as grotesque and inescapable.

I am important to her.

Plath, “Mirror” — Simple declarative and caesura; shows the mirror's central role in woman’s identity.