When the author said, "His black hair, fine as floss silk, hung in glossy curls about his roun dimpled face, while a pair of large dark eyes, full of fire and softness, looked out from beneath the rich, long lashes, as he peered curiously into the apartment." on page seven of Uncle Tom's Cabin, she used imagery describing how the young boy looked in appearance.
| When the author said, "He ran up and down, and cursed and swore and stamped miscellaneously." on page 60 of Uncle Tom's Cabin, she used a polysyndeton, a sentence with a series in it that can be slowed down by adding connectives between all the items in the series.
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When the author said, "She had been married to a bright and talented young mulatto man, who was a slave on a neighboring estate, and bore the name of George Harris." , on page 17 of Uncle Tom's Cabin, she really meant that his name was. She used diction.
| When the author said, "Nevertheless, as this young man was in the eye of the law not a man, but a thing all these superior qualifications were subject to the control of a vurgular, narrow-minded, tyranical master." , on page 18 of Uncle Tom's Cabin, she really meant that he was always being watched by the police. She used diction.
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