This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
‘Beautiful Kareendi, flower of my heart. No one but you can type them. For I want to send them care of the address of your heart, by the post of your heart, to be read by the eye of your heart, thereafter to be kept within your heart, sealed there forever and ever’.
Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
The aesthetic appeal of this seduction emanates from the predominant use of
- simile
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metaphor
- metonymy
- synecdoche