- “My father smiled” – imagery
- “I was taken, blind naked, defenceless” – list
- “I WAS” – capitals
- “Somewhere, at some time” – repetition – vague – they didn’t care
- “I hung in my pulsing cave” – metaphor – connotation
- “Each part of me was saying” – personification
- “…dropped…” – Word choice
- “…whose good name…” – sarcasm
- “My death was celebrated” – oxymoron
- “…pretending to be a woman, like my mother was.” – sarcasm – simile
- “plastic waste bucket” – word choice
- “I had no say in my being” – first person narrative – intimate connection
- “The cot I might have warmed…” – supposition
- “tiny”/ “small” – synonyms
- “Queen’s counsel”/ “Harrods”/ “brass plate”/ “Wimpole Street” – connotations of wealth
