Paper 1- Rita Dove

In Rita Dove's Adolescence II, Rita demonstrates the life of a young woman who is dealing with and tryin to maintain her innocence, yet during this peak in her life, she is targeted and looked at as food. Rita does this through the use of diction and similes.

II. Innocence
a) Baby Breast
b)quiver
c)pale
d)licorice
e)chuckle
f)glittering

III. Seen as food
a) dinner plates
b)slice
c)tines
d)strips
e)baby breasts

IV. Similes
a) eyes as round as dinner plates... (as if the young woman is seen as a piece of food and is ready to be devoured.)
b) eyelashes like sharpened tines ( as if ready to pick at her)
c) licorice- symbol of innocence and childhood

V. Conclusion