LANGUAGE USE

LANGUAGE USE.

The language used is simple, straightforward and easy to understand. Moreover the novelist has employed many idioms, sayings and literary devices as we are going to look very closely.

FIGURES OF SPEECH.

Simile. The man will die like a dog. Pg 27

 But don’t worry, Vicky men are like buses you miss one today another comes tomorrow. Pg 16

She walked to him as fearless as a lioness. Pg 3.

The new disease was spreading like bush fire in the whole of Uganda. Pg 24

Onomatopoeia.

 Uwi-uwi- the sound of crying. Pg 4

 Ha ha ah! – Sound of laughing. Pg 7

Reiteration. To repeat something that you have already said usually to emphasize.

 I really regret... I really regret I have married a pig. A pig. A pig I have married a pig mawe! Pg 3

  Uncle Araali, Uncle Araali has come pg 14

  Knock, knock, knock, knock. Pg 27

  Hurry, hurry, pg 14.

Metaphor

  I have married a pig. Pg 3

  For them marriage is just business. Pg 17

Personification.

 Money will kill you. pg 42

Understatement- a statement that makes something seem less important.

  “You must be the most poorly dressed girl in Fort Portal’. Pg 18

Barbarism – using more than one languages.

 The novelist has used a lot of words from other languages other than English. E.g., bazungu/muzungu, bakombozi, munyamahanga, matoke, waragi, oburo

Symbolism

Pig = a useless man

  Slim= AIDS

Sayings and Idioms

 “Like father like son” pg 39.

 “East or West home is Best” 49

“In fact marriage is an institution for blind” pg 17.

“Building castles in the air” pg 19

 “To hook a big fish” pg 19

 “To add salt to the wound...” pg 23

 “Exchanging hot potatoes with Adyeri” pg