Melba Beals Rhetorical Devices

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Melba Beals uses concrete words to describe the action that is going on through her experience. In this quote she describes what she sees as she is walking to Central High: “people running”, “uniformed police officers walking”, “carrying weapons”. The style of language that is being used in this quote and the book is informal because of the inappropriate name calling and because this book is fully described in violence. One of the words that has been said in the book and this quote is, “niggers” because white people didn’t accept blacks into their community. This quote and like the book, both has simple, compound and complex sentences to describe in different ways Beals thoughts. The sentences are connected with colons, commas, period and exclamation

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