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Camp, cook, sleep, strike camp, march" (Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad).?
What rhetorical device is this?
I do NOT need smart @$$ people saying to do my homework myself. I did, thank you very much. This question was recently on my reader's check and I would like to know the correct answer.
Here's a larger excerpt.
"Day after day with the stamp and shuffle of 60 pair of bare feet behind me, each pair under a 60-lb. load. Camp, cook, sleep, strike camp, march. Now and then a carrier dead in harness, at rest in the long grass near the path....".
I had to tell what literary device the specified quote used.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
i've read heart of darkness and studied it at uni so i might be able to help but i don't actually understand what you're asking.
could you give more detail and the context of the quote or rephrase the question?
well i would say that the use of commas makes the sentence flow faster (if you read the extract out loud you'll find that you read it faster). so you can feel the stress and annoyance the character is feeling. they're frustrated so they're listing all these nusances off. i don't know what device that would be called but hopefully that helped a little.