- Anaphora, pg. 41- "I could smell the entrance to the pillared house with its waxed wooden floors and bowls of roses. I could see the blue satin on Mr. Peavey's pale dress as she around a candle-covered Christmas tree. And I could hear the string quartet that came every Sunday to play in the music room."
- Irony, pg. 35-"...my mother greeted him with the news that she had just purchased a dead birch tree to brighten up our home."
- Simile, pg. 31- "...after dinner Aunt Birdie turned up the radio and the three of us danced as if we were attending a formal ball."
- Personification, pg. 29- "Her voice caressed the words "your father", as they always did..."
- Simile, pg. 26- "She was mixing spices to make meat leaf, but she stopped in mid-motion, like a rabbit when it sees a car..."
- Anaphora, pg. 35- "She entertained, she decorated, she arranged culturally enriching trips."
Reichel uses these rhetorical strategies to emphasize her certain views. The repetition, for example, shows her precise knowledge about exact things and people and what she knows they do. She often uses a lot of humor in her writing which contributes to the heartwarming nature of the read and novel. Since some of her accounts are from when she was a young girl, the humor is relative to her age and understanding of the events she takes part in, yet her sense of humor continues to stay with her as both the novel and her life progresses.
Humor did seem to be the most prominent rhetorical strategy throughout the text. The style of writing seemed to have little eloquence or figurative language but through Reichl’s use of repetition and descriptions of food, she was able to create successful imagery that made the book a page-turner and enjoyable to read. Reichl’s writing is very funny and with her use of relaxed diction, I enjoyed every chapter.
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