Rhetorical Devices

The Book "In The Time Of The Butterflies" there are all sorts of rhetorical devices in every chapter. One Rhetorical Device that seems to be important through out the book is anaphora and Parallelism. The are both alike but different in many ways. Julia Alvarez uses both very well and portrays both in a good or bad way. For example, when she used anaphora, "over and over again, I saw the SIM approaching, I saw Nelson and Pedrito hurrying out the back way, Noris's stricken face"(Alvarez 201). Alvarez uses this piece of anaphora because she wanted to show what the SIM did and the things that Patria saw. The author wanted to emphasize "I saw" because she wanted to showthat what Patria saw was more important than the other things. Patria watching nelson and pedrito trying to run away was more important than Noris getting stricken because Nelson and Pedrito got arrested and taken away and Noris didn't. This was helpful to the theme Alvarez was trying to provide. That people do things to get out of trouble.