The Curious Incident Of The Dog At Nighttime Rhetorical Devices

In “The Curious Incident of the Dog at Nighttime” by Mark Graham he uses continuous similar syntax to create and establish a style to his work. In the story the escape of a young person is revealed as he narrates it from his indecision of leaving the train at London, to his hiding in a shelf and his anxiety to get his bag. The narrator often finds himself in uncomfortable situation such as when he was found by one of the people that got off the train and by the lady in the yellow water proof coat.

In this short excerpt from the story the author begins each paragraph with “And” making the transition from paragraph to paragraph a bit robotic, choppy and simple and is an example of a rhetorical device called anaphora. The author’s words choice