Task: Now that you have read the first four chapters, what is Quinonez' style based on the various kinds of figurative language that is evident in Quinonez' Bodega Dreams?
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-respond in eight to sixteen sentences
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based on the first four chapters, I'd say Quinonez's style based on foreing language would be Metonymy
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ReplyDeletein the book BODEGAS dreams julio describes his best friend enrique as a SAPO (toad) because he describes that his facia expressions like like a frogs, this is more of a simile.on page 4, julio states that when enrique was brought into this world and was put in the arms of his faher his father qouted (Cono,he looks like a frog) and handed the baby to his mother....another type of figurative language in this story would be syntactic (non-standerd langauge)because julio was explaining that if u back down of something you would always back down no matter what so he used this figure of speech (everyone takes a lickin but you gottah keep on tickin) or this could also bean idioms because its not literaly meaning what is written what he really means is that if you stat something off you gottah finish it the way u started.
ReplyDelete"I don't like lawywers , they're prostitutes in suits " - Metaphor
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Delete"With Nazario I intend to own this neighborhood and turn El Barrio into my sandbox" - metaphor , hes comparing the neighborhood to a childs playpen.
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DeleteSapo used a rhyme and a pun with he stated " If they can play with fisher-price then they can play with this device" . Not only did it ryhme but he also didn't mean it literally . In his mind he meant to say that he doesn't care about a young ladys age as long as shes actually legal and she can please him in certain ways, not really seducing a little baby girl.
ReplyDeleteThe story told by Julio a bright kid and a student at hunter collge. Julio earned the name of Chino from the influence he recieved from Enrique. Enrique earned the name of Sapo from the way he looks. People all over spanish Harlem call him sapo/toad just for the fact that he looked like one. This is an example of a simile because Enrique is compared to a toad.
ReplyDeleteJulio says "when she danced she prostituted your blood and masturbated your soul" its a personification. Julio was intreaged by the affects he had tours her sexually. Another simile he uses was when he says "it's like a fat girl no one wanted until someone took a chance on the ***** and put her on a diet, and now everyone sweatin' her.
In the book Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinonez. The author uses orthographic as a figure of speech in his book, He uses visual aspects when he tells the story of Enrique known as chino. On his role model and best friend sapo. Chapter 3 pg 1 chino describes sapo looking like a toad. "His eyes bulged in their sockets and when he laughed there was no denying the resemblance." It was like one huge, happy toad laughing right in front of you." The orthographic is used alot in this book its visual aspects of the written word you can imagine as you read.
ReplyDeleteBased on the first four chapters, Quiñonez applies several kinds of figurative language. The most evident one is syntactic,most of the times when Sapo is speaking non-standard language is used. "Nah, wait! Bro, that's the beauty of it. You'd be droppin' those fucks right at Hunta. Yo i sweara-ma-mahthah. There's... don'cha? (P. 19).He also uses Orthographic figure of speech the author uses visual aspects most of the times, he gives a lot of details that you're able to make a picture of what is happening."His father saw the baby and said, 'Coño, he looks like a frog,' and quickly handed the baby to the mother." The author as well uses lexical as a figure of speech.
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