Rhetorical devices

Repetition 

In her essay, “Which Floor?” Loretta Ramkissoon uses repetition when recalling a piece of advice that her grandfather gave her. She first mentions it at the beginning when talking about how dead bodies are transported out of the building using the lifts: “My grandfather always tells me that when he dies, he doesn’t want to die upright. He wants to be carried out lying down, preferably out of a house. ‘Always have your own front door,’ he says.” (ll. 8-10) 

At first, the reader thinks that Ramkissoon finds the living conditions of Braithwaite Tower awful and agrees with her grandfather. However, she mentions her grandfather’s words once again later in the essay: “There’s nothing in life like having your own front door, my grandfather says. I still have hope that maybe one day I’ll have that, but for now I appreciate Braithwaite Tower more than ever. The shame I fe...