Srikanth|1

Narayanan Srikanth
Patryk Biegalski
NBE 3U1.20
October 3, 2023
The Man Who Didn't Exist
Literary Devices

1.
Sound 1: “Marnie tried to keep up and keep him up, but it was a losing battle.”

This sentence uses an example of rhyme. “Keep up and keep him up” are words that
sound the same and can form a rhyme. This rhyme is a sound literary device that helps
keep readers interested.

Sound 2: “But that day, people along the main drag of the village reported seeing the
Dodge pickup, one window smashed, make its way rather quickly out of the reserve and
out of Marnie’s life.”

This sentence “Out of the reserve, and out of Marnie’s life” is an example of a parallel
structure. This is because there is a repeat in the pattern, and the flow of the sentence is
effective which helps the reader keep to the story.

Visual 1: “Moses was one of the thousands of Native children who went into the
bureaucratic/religious laundry that took an entire generation of Native children through
the wash, rinse and spin cycle and then hung them out to dry.”

In the above sentence, there is a use of a metaphor which compares the process of
taking native children into the residential schools and religious systems to a laundry
cycle ("wash, rinse, and spin cycle").

References
Taylor, Drew Hayden. Fearless Warriors. Talonbooks, 1998.
 Srikanth|2
Narayanan Srikanth
Patryk Biegalski
NBE 3U1.20
October 3, 2023

Visual 2: “Like a bulldozer, Jimmy cleared a passage to her, leaned over the railing and
lifted her from the dance floor and over the railing like she was a basketball”

In the above sentence, Jimmy is being compared to a bulldozer, and Marnie is being
compared to a basketball, this happens to be an example of a simile. This simile helps us
better visualize what is happening in the situation.

References
Taylor, Drew Hayden. Fearless Warriors. Talonbooks, 1998.