Dey throws em away (1677 . A further literary device that effective develops the character of Delia is the use of Colloquial speech . Every character in the story speaks colloquially , providing the reader with an emotive view of life for the black citizens living in the deep south during that period . Delia 's speech portrays her as uneducated and poor giving the reader a sense of repressed being whose only hope of survival is through hard manual work and graft . The...
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