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August Wilson uses a variety of literary devices to enhance "Fences." Reread Act I, Scenes II and III
and identify the following literary devices: metaphor, idiom, foreshadowing, symbolism, tone.
Raining and doys
1. Troy expresses his feeling about playing numbers (playing the lottery).
TROY: "You ain't doing nothing but throwing your money away." "...I say it's foolish. Trying to gues
out of six hundred ways which way the number gonna come."
Which literary device applies to this passage and why?
VITRINE
2. Gabriel, Troy's brother, shares his experience with heaven.
GABRIEL: "Troy...St. Peter got your name in the book. I seen it. It say, ...Troy Maxson. I say...I kr
him! He got the same name like what I got. That's my brother!"
Which literary device applies to this passage and why?
ON
he hears something.