My Children! My Africa!

Can you write all figures of speech in Act 1 only and explain them?

from act 1 scene 1 up to act 1 scene 6

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Simile:

"Enthusiasm for your cause is most commendable but without personal discipline it is as useless as having a good donkey and a good cart but no harness"

Motif:

Word choice; The play begins with a inter-school debate between Thami and Isabel. Specifically, the first lines of a play are Thami and Isabel arguing about Isabel's word choice. Isabel says that she said "women were more intuitive than men" (p.7) while Thami believes that she said women "were more emotional than men" (p.7). This semantic argument is important because describing women as intuitive is more "progressive" than describing them as emotional, and Isabel would likely have been careful to use this particular term in supporting her argument against traditional roles and perceptions of women.

Foreshadowing:

In Act I, Scene 1, we see that Thami does not want Mr. M to control him, foreshadowing the active resistance that comes only later.

Imagery:

"Most of the houses—if you can call them that!—are made of bits of old corrugated iron or anything else they could find to make four walls and a roof. There are no gardens or anything like that. You've got to drive in first gear all the time because of the potholes and stones, and when the wind is blowing and all the dust and rubbish flying around...!" (p.20-21).

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My Children, My Africa