ENG 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dill, Iced Tea, Joy Harjo
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Perception: figurative language is concrete, literal imagery that also makes a comparison. My mother had roasted two chickens and cut them up into dainty bite-size pieces. She packed slices of brown bread and butter and green pepper and carrot sticks. There were violently yellow iced cakes with scalloped edges called marigolds, that came from. There was a spice bun and rock-cakes from newton"s, the west. Indian bakery across lenox avenue from st. mark"s school, and iced tea in a wrapped mayonnaise jar. There were sweet pickles for us and dill pickles for my father; and peaches with the fuzz still on them, individually wrapped to keep them from bruising. And, for neatness, there were piles of napkins and a little tin box with a washcloth dampened with rosewater and glycerine for wiping sticky mouths.
