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I Am A Legend Richard Mathewson Analysis
Most will say that they have experienced an epiphany. In the excerpt I am a Legend, written you Richard Mathewson talks these character going through an epiphany. Through the second line the narrator depicts his brother with this quote “ He saw the man’s throat moving like clammy turkey skin, the red-splotched cheeks, the feverish eyes”. Using the rhetorical device of anaphora, the narrators describes his brother’s appearance with using the words the and like. As the narrator examines his brother yet again, he points out seeing “his skeleton like fingers”. By using a simile in line 5 the narrator compares his brothers fingers to resemble that of a skeleton with using the word like. As Robert Neville and his brother and his brother approached
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