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June Jordan - College Term Paper

June Jordan

How is your relationship with you mother? A mother to daughter relationship is very important. In both passages the daughter admires their mother, but they don't want to become them. In passage A prose-poem by and passage B an essay by Carol Saline, both daughter discuss their admiration for their mother, but do not want to becomes their mothers.
In a prose-poem by , a daughter tells how her mother's dream is to be an artist, but she becomes a nurse. The daughter is then afraid that she will make the same mistake. Jordan uses literary elements and techniques to show the daughters admiration for her mother but does not want to become her. One technique that the author uses is ...

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picture her leaving and getting ready for work. This shows how the daughter admires the way she looks but still does not want to become her.
In an essay by Carol Saline, the relationship between the daughter and mother is acontradiction. Meaning at one time they love each other, next minute they hate each other. Saline uses literary elements and techniques to show the daughters admiration for her mother but does not want to become her. One technique the author uses is metaphor. Metaphor is a comparison between two things. Saline writes "love and hate are flip sides of the same coin" to show that the mother and daughters relationship is divided into love and hate just as heads and tails are on a coin. This shows that the daughter fights with her mother to show that she does not want to become her. Another technique the author uses is simile. Simile is a comparison using the word like or as. "It is like she had a sign on her head that said: Keep off; don't touch me" ...

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Added: 11/19/2006 09:51:27 AM
Category: English
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