1. Early on in the story the mood is set, it is bleak, dreary and above all, hopeless. Frank uses the following quotes to describe his surroundings: “I wonder how I survived at all”, “It turned noses into fountains, lungs into bacterial sponges.” and “the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying schoolmasters; the english and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years.”
2. Unfortunately, the lack of food is indicated as a continuous problem when Angela comments “They get their appetites because they’re starving half the time”.
3. The repetition of the word “miserable” in the quotes: “miserable childhood” “miserable irish childhood” and “Miserable Irish Catholic childhood” emphasizes the fact that his childhood was truly bleak, completely devoid of happiness and comfort. It also indicates the significance of this emotion, indicating it will be relevant throughout the entirety of the autobiography.…show more content… The constant rain serves as a constant bleak reminder of the poverty, sickness, weakness, and desperation that McCourt associates with it. The church was “Our refuge, our strength, our only dry place” the only place he could escape the constant reminder the rain carried.
5. Onomatopoeia, Alliteration, and Imagery are used to describe the rain and it’s effects in Angela’s Ashes.
Onomatopoeia - “It created a cacophony of hacking coughs, bronchial rattles, asthmatic wheezes, consumptive croaks.”
Alliteration - “Above all - we were wet”
Imagery - “From October to April the walls of Limerick glistened with the
