Literary Devices in Lemon Brown

“His father’s words, like the distant thunder that now echoed through the streets of Harlem, still rumbled softly in his ears” contains:

“Gusts of wind made bits of paper dance between the parked cars” contains:

“He reached the house just as another flash of lightning changed the night to day for an instant, then returned the graffiti-scarred building to the grim shadows” contains:

“Don’t try nothin’ ‘cause I got a razor here sharp enough to cut a week into nine days!” contains:

“The voice was high and brittle, like dry twigs being broken…” contains:

“His black, heavily wrinkled face was surrounded by a halo of crunkly white hair and whiskers…” contains:

“Hard times always after a poor man. One day I got tired, sat down to rest a spell, and felt a tap on my shoulder. Hard times caught up with me” contains:

“They used to say I sung the blues so sweet that if I sang at a funeral, the dead would commence to rocking with the beat” contains:

“When you get as old as me, all you say when something hurts is ‘Howdy Mr. Pain, sees you back again'” contains:

What is the author's purpose of passage #1? Select all of the narrative elements which are being revealed: