AP Literature Exam Practice - Question 2
The passage below is the opening of Seraph on the Suwanee (1948), a novel written by Zora Neale Hurston. Read!
the passage carefully. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze the literary techniques Hurston
uses to describe Sawley and to characterize the people who live there.

The Author uses extensive imagery and detail as well as simile to describe Sawley and characterize the people living in it in the novel " Seraph and Suwanee" by Zora Neal Hurston.

Explanation:

The Author also uses simile as well as syntax and imagery to characterize the people who live there in the excerpt "The life of Sawley streams out from the sawmill" This relates with the name sawyer. When Hudston says "The people of Sawley looked liked the "The farmers and scanty flowers in the front yard and in the tin cans and buckets" is a good example of simile and Imagery.

Throughput the entire passage, the narrator describes how life goes on in the town of Sawley and because of all the Imagery about the cornfields, the growth of the town, the forest. suggest to the readers that Sawley is a farming town with contented and traditional people.

The Literary techniques made the passage to be great, the various transitions of tone from from one paragraph to the next; from admiration to doubtfulness and from that to the tone of boredom and to a simple tone made the readers to be intrigued until the end of the passage.

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