Melodie Beattie: Codependency...
8. What stylistic devices does the writer use to achieve a convincing explanantion?
Contrast:
Unlike the alcoholics…. I wasn’t going around….(94f.)
In fact, next to the alcoholics, I looked good…(96f.)
Repetition:
..I still found codependents hostile, controlling, manipulative….(entire list of depreciatory adjectives; repeated as single words with explanations: hostile 129, controlling 133)
Alliteration:
Necessary nuisance
People-pleaser
Ready to rescue (15)
Misunderstanding was mutual
Addicts and alcoholics 20
Leading and living their own lives
Crazy codependents 75
Rhetorical question:
“No wonder codependents are so crazy. Who wouldn’t be, after living with the people they’ve lived with?” 167 f.
Quotation (only 2):
➢ l. 49: from a play (just a nice way of saying it)
➢ l. 161 from a book on codependency > another expert > thus an authoritative support for her own ideas/ analysis