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The Magic Metal Tube" by Maxine Hong Kingston "Once in a long while, four times so far for me, my mother brings out the metal tube that holds her medical diploma. On the tube are gold circles crossed with seven red lines each―"joy" ideographs in abstract. There are also little flowers that look like gears for a gold machine. According to the scraps of labels with Chinese and American addresses, stamps, and postmarks, the family airmailed the can from Hong Kong in 1950. It got crushed in the middle, and whoever tried to peel the labels off stopped because the red and gold paint came off too, leaving silver scratches that rust. Somebody tried to pry the end off before discovering that the tube falls apart. When I open it, the smell of China flies out, a thousand-year-old bat flying heavy-headed out of the Chinese caverns where bats are as white as dust, a smell that comes from long ago, far back in the brain

." Instructions: Read the assigned sample descriptive paragraph. After you have read it, use the following criterion to share your analysis and identification of literary and other devices used in the passage to make it descriptive. Dimensions Your identification of literary and other devices with examples to substantiate your claim.
Use of adjectives
Use of sensory details
Use of adverbs
Use of figurative language/literary devices
Use of comparatives and superlatives (e. g, brighter, brightest etc).
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