Analysis Of Hailey Delcoure

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Hailey Delcoure #3 syntax: uses a mixed sentence structure. both elaborate and efficient - lots of description, but it is easy to understand basic action of the story. use of dialogue similes, metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia
○ Example - Pg 99 (narrator) - "Tears filled my eyes, and the walks and the buildings flowed and froze for a moment in the mist, glittering in winter when rain froze on the grass and foliage and turned the campus into a world of whiteness, weighting and bending both trees and bushes with fruit of crystal."
○ Example - Pg. 171 (narrator) - "No, the thing to do was to keep faith. I'd start out once more in the morning. Something was certain to happen tomorrow. And it did. I received a letter from Mr. Emerson."

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