Lines 55-56: Imagery And Figurative Language

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Imagery includes specific details and figurative language that represent persons, objects, actions, feelings and ideas descriptively like in Lines 55-56, “Plenty reason to get my brother by the throat, taking turns punching him in the face,” It describes an imagery of how they were hurting them like for example It shows how the 5 “white” boys beat luis and his brother and describes briefly of what happened in the scenario when everything was occurring. Another example of imagery is in lines 59-61, “Punching until swollen and dark blue he slid from their grasp like a rotten banana from its peeling” It describes how they finally let his brother go and he felt like a rotten banana from its peeling it's like a metaphor for feeling like he was underperformed

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