![]() ![]() Sense of ritual importance in attitudes to lunch & in performance her mother gives that makes it seem like a religious rite eg 'she feverently blessed the food and put her left hand on the platter and her right on the bowl'. ![]() Sensuous semantic fields with lexis drawn from pleasure in enjoying food (contrasts to attitiude towards landlady cooking) eg 'each grain of rice is .sated my appetite'. Use of humour in descriptions of landladys food eg 'disastrous culinary exploits.unidentifiable piece of meat', juxtaposition 'loyal, if often unhappy' & irony in use of french expression 'chez jefferson'. ![]() Economical descriptions in her potrayal of landlady that are developed which foreground description of relationship with her mother, with clustered use of pre-modifers, adjectives & adverbs eg 'kind and grandmotherly.a ready babysitter.ways so tender and personality so sweet'. ![]()
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