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LANGUAGE USE

The language used is simple, straightforward and easy to understand. Moreover, the novelist has employed many idioms, sayings and literary devices as we are going to look very closely.

*FIGURES OF SPEECH*

1. Simile

- The man will die like a dog. Pg 27
- Vicky men are like buses… Pg 16
- She walked to him as fearless as a lioness. Pg 3
- The new disease was spreading like bush fire in the whole of Uganda. Pg 24

2. Onomatopoeia

- Uwi-uwi – the sound of crying. Pg 4
- Ha ha ah! – Sound of laughing. Pg 7

3. Reiteration
- I really regret… I really regret I have married a pig. Pg 3
- Uncle Araali, Uncle Araali has come. Pg 14
- Knock, knock, knock, knock. Pg 27
- Hurry, hurry. Pg 14

4. Metaphor

- I have married a pig. Pg 3
- For them, marriage is just business. Pg 17

5. Personification
- Money will kill you. Pg 42

6. Understatement

- “You must be the most poorly dressed girl in Fort Portal”. Pg 18

7. Barbarism

Using more than one language.
- Words from other languages used:
e.g., bazungu/muzungu, bakombozi, munyamahanga, matoke, waragi, oburo

8. Symbolism*

- Pig = a useless man
- Slim = AIDS

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Prepared by: Liberty Kwa SANGA*

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