What techniques are these? (1 Viewer)

[Faith_7]

1. "We survived the 'smoothing of the dying pillow' of extermination to end up on the bottom rung of the ladder of assimilation"
2. 'We remained a reminder of what was lost, what was taken, what was destroyed to scaffold the building of this nation's prosperity'

 

[SudhiTheBoat]

Full stops and speech marks. Dare you to right that in your SR.

I'm no english expert (actually i'm horrible) but in (2) there's fragmented sentences, repetition and inclusive language. Depending on the context you could argue that 'lost, taken, destroyed' are euphemisms.

In (1) there's juxtaposition of 'survived' and 'dying' and high modality words (extermination, assimilation). Not sure about this, but 'dying pillow' at first glance seems like an oxymoron, since you rarely experience someone dying on a pillow (you'd expect them to sleep on it). There's inclusive language again.

Sorry for not expanding, I have no contextual idea about your texts. I probably didn't really help since English is my weakest subject, but I hope you got something from it.