Similes - FATHERS OF NATIONS STYLES AND STYLISTIC DEVICESThis is the direct comparison of two different things by use of like and 'as.. .as' mainly used to describe something. The author has used a lot of similes in the text such as:
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Contrast - FATHERS OF NATIONS STYLES AND STYLISTIC DEVICES
Humour - FATHERS OF NATIONS STYLES AND STYLISTIC DEVICESThis is a way of making the .audience laugh. Mainly used to break monotony or cheer up the audience... examples
Ideophones - FATHERS OF NATIONS STYLES AND STYLISTIC DEVICES
Symbolism - FATHERS OF NATIONS STYLES AND STYLISTIC DEVICESThis is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
Personification - FATHERS OF NATIONS STYLES AND STYLISTIC DEVICESThis entails giving human abilities to non-human. Examples include:
Metaphors - FATHERS OF NATIONS STYLES AND STYLISTIC DEVICESThis is the indirect comparison of two things which is used to create a mental picture.
Sarcasm - FATHERS OF NATIONS STYLES AND STYLISTIC DEVICE This is the use of irony to cause contempt.
Use of borrowed language - FATHERS OF NATIONS STYLES AND STYLISTIC DEVICESIt is used to maintain the authenticity of the words or phrases that might lose meaning if translated. Use of Swahili words
Irony - FATHERS OF NATIONS STYLES AND STYLISTIC DEVICESThis is a state of affairs that appears deliberately contrary to what one expects.
Story within a story - FATHERS OF NATIONS STYLES AND STYLISTIC DEVICES
Vivid description - FATHERS OF NATIONS STYLES AND STYLISTIC DEVICESThis is a way of creating very detailed and clear mental image to the audience about an event, a character or a situation in the text. It is a style used to appeal to the senses of the audience and therefore makes the audience to feel as if they are exactly at the spot where the author is describing.
Flashback -FATHERS OF NATIONS STYLES AND STYLISTIC DEVICESThis is a window to an earlier occurrence that provides critical information to the main story. It is a situation where the author uses a scene set in a time earlier than the main story to link up with the events taking place in the main story.
FATHERS OF NATIONS STYLES AND STYLISTIC DEVICESDialogue
This is the most dominant style in the text, It is a direct conversation between two or more characters or a conversation between two different groups of people or a conversation between an individual and a certain group of people in the text. It has mainly been used to activate and dramatize several conflicts in the text.
Rhetorical questions
These are questions asked to make a point or create a dramatic effect. They do not require answers since they are used to persuade or to pause.
President Wasiwasi WesigaFATHERS OF NATIONS CHARACTER AND CHARACTERISATIONSchemerHe anticipated many coups and nipped them in the bud before they got off the ground.
At the summit he reminds the chair of the 'trick ' when he realizes that the tneeting is getting out of hand, (Pgl 65) Thaddues LongwayFATHERS OF NATIONS CHARACTER AND CHARACTERISATIONInformedIt is his first meeting with Dr. Afolabi but he knows that he is the man serving as an adviser of the heads of state in the summit (Pg73) He is also aware of what Way Omega and Path Alpha he tells Dr. Afolabi that Way Omega and Path Alpha differs like day and night in that Way Omega is top-driven and lacks will of implementation. Path Alpha is bottom led and it has will. PersuasiveWhen Dr. Afolabi is adamant to accept to be the guide to for Path Alpha travelers, Tad Longway informs him that there is no problem since he's the advisor to the summit. He tells him to look at what Way Omega is recommending for adoption and what Path Alpha is proposing as an alternative. He tells him that he is open minded. (Pg 74)
President Simba IbarosaFATHERS OF NATIONS CHARACTER AND CHARACTERISATIONFirmHe has never taken floor to make friends or amends...he is free in expressing his feelings and opinions.
Rahmah MahmoudFATHERS OF NATIONS CHARACTER AND CHARACTERISATIONTemperamentalWhen Seif Tahir slaps her she become emotional and strikes Seifin his left eye and slits it open. (Pg 122) ViolentShe slits Seif's eye after a slight provocation from Seife President Didier Banguora CandidAfter analyzing what the first two speakers had said he came up with his support for Path Alpha. He says candidly that there is no need of adopting Way Omega because it was once adopted.
Asiya OmondiFATHERS OF NATIONS CHARACTER AND CHARACTERISATIONPreviously wife to Prof, Kimani and mother to Tuni, she divorces Prof. Kimani because of his financial status; she's now wife to Newborn Walomu. MaterialisticShe choses to get married to Newborn Walomu at sixty years because he has money and four cars. He leaves Prof. Kimani because he is poor; having only one car which again is faulty. (Pg 33)
Even when Prof. Kimani says that money doesn't guarantee happiness, she says 'never having had it, how would you know that it doesn't?' Fiona MckenzieFATHERS OF NATIONS CHARACTER AND CHARACTERISATIONShe's a reporter for Gambian News who's later taken on loan by Voice Of America (VOA). She was adopted by Ian and Elspeth McKenzie; the Scottish missionaries who were in Banjul, HumorousShe jokingly tells Dr. Abiola to go take a photo because hc is young against his forty five years . 'Go have your picture taken right now Dr Afolabi, You won't always look this good. I am joking, go.' (Pg6) Appreciative/CourteousShe thanks Dr. Afolabi for a agreeing greeing to have an interview with her. 'First Ict thank you for agreeing to sit for this interview.' AbusiveWhen her boss calls her she tells Dr Afolabi: The silly boss wants me.' (Pg 10) TemperamentalMcKenzie was spiking words with bile left in her mouth by an earlier exchange (Pg 134)... She could no longer hide her anger'. (Pg 135)
Newborn WalomuFATHERS OF NATIONS CHARACTER AND CHARACTERISATIONHe has formerly been a junior colleague of Profe Kimani at the University of Nairobi. He is an MP... a rich MP with four cars. He 'stole' Prof. Kimani 's wife, Asiya. CorruptWhen he leaves teaching, he swims in money and amasses a lot of wealth that attracts Kimani's wife to him. (Pg 30) Immoral/ PromiscuousWalomu has three wives and Asiya will be fourth yet he has many other women he engages in sexual activity with; those he calls 'killed but not eaten' (Pg 36).
He adds by saying a real bull dies with his grass on his mouth. (Pg 37) Engineer Seif TahirFATHERS OF NATIONS CHARACTER AND CHARACTERISATION
He's engineer, a further employee of the ministry of defense in Libya. He joins 'Fist of Allah' right after returning from overseas. It's later dismantled.
Chauvinistic
He feels humiliated when Rahmah Mahmoud says no to his advances. (pg 121)
Vengeful
He retaliates on his advances being rejected by Rahmah Mahmoud. He slaps her claiming that she shed her veil in public; a violation of the Libyan culture,
Remorseful
He deeply regrets that Rahmah lost her eye„.as per the court verdict the I lammurabic verdict -- an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth (Pg 122) he loses peace, The author says he becomes much restless now than he has never been. (Pg 122)
Comrade Ngobile MelusiFATHERS OF NATIONS CHARACTER AND CHARACTERISATION
He's a comrade and citizen of Zimbabwe. He's also a politician and husband to Ziliza who lost her life to tribal clashes.
Curious
When he discovers that he is diabetic, he reads pamphlets about it with an interest similar to that which first time car owners read manuals (Pg 83). He wants to know more about diabetes hence how to manage it...this attitude pays off; he is now an authority on diabetes. (Pg 83)
Firm
He insisted that he must get in with his needle and indeed he succeeds. He never succumbs to the officer's demands...so sir I will let you in with your medicine after all please proceed. (Pg 85)
Keen
He observes that they were the only customers yet it was 1:30 pm noting that the economy had crashed.
Loving
He loved his wife Ziliza dearly. When narrating how he to lost her, he cries.
...Comrade Melusi starts to glisten with the beginning of tears. (Pg 90) He lies on his bed daydreaming about Ziliza. He reaches out for his wallet then pulls out her photograph...just to bring out the memories. The caller tells Melusi to come urgently to a meeting in an hour yet Comrade Melusi returns to his wife's photo. This shows how Comrade Melusi loved his wife. Professor Karanja KimaniFATHERS OF NATIONS CHARACTER AND CHARACTERISATION
He is a professor at the Institute of Development Studies within the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He's also the ex-husband of Asiya Omondi as well as father to Tuni.
Intelligent
He is a professor, He studied at the University of Oxford. He is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Nairobi.
Loving
He loved his wife Asiya Omondi . When Asiya wants them to separate so that she gets married to Newborn Walomu, Prof. Kimani never agrees to it. He tries his best to convince Asiya but it falls on Asiya's deaf ears.
He loves his daughter Tuni. He's really traumatized when she passes on; even after the burial he morns Tuni earnestly. Abusive
He abuses Newborn Walomu as a fat baboon...a greedy fat baboon. This is when he goes to ask him why he stole his wife.
Short tempered/Hot tempered
Angry he is after Walomu steals his wife; he decides to go and attack him.
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