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Literary Devices In Lorrie Moore's 'Self-Help'
"Lorrie Moore's Literary Devices"

In this paper I will discuss the literary devices that Lorrie Moore uses in her book Self-Help. Moore uses images, sound patterns, and humor in her book to aid her work. Without the use of these literary devices Moore's book would not be appealing to her readers. There are many remarkable examples of the use of imagery in all of Moore's short stories. She depicts her images so well that the reader can picture them in their minds. An example of this is in "How to Be an Other Woman," when Moore describes Charlene's mother appearance after she insults her mother. "She looks up at you, her mouth trembling, pieces of her brown-gray hair dangling in her salty eyes, pink silverware cream caking onto her
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