This excerpt is from a selection by a Japanese woman. In it she talks about how Japanese girls were raised to be silent and yielding, and that "even possessions were accorded more rights" than females were (a hyperbole!). Emitting a hair-aising keening, my mittens would mourn for their mates. The floors I had scuffed, the doors, I had slammed, herded me into the street. Broken dishes and dulled scissors joined them to form a large, shrill, and reproachful parade of dutiful treated items. How envied white children and the simple I absolution of a spanking.
9. What figure of speech is used throughout the paragraph?
10. Give at least two examples of the figure of speech from the excerpt.