Imagery; Visual (2) Pictorial (2) Auditory (3) Associational Synaesthetic

"Then you are writing home"; the foreigner is homesick and certainly doesn't percieve their current living situation as 'home' "You use the public transport"; highlights the economic situation of the immigrant - increases the pathos "coming to bits"; fragmentation highlights the splintered life that arises from unfamiliarity "why your eyes are watering and what's the word for this"; struggle between the pain in missing home and the frustration in not understanding the language "The sound of your foreign accent echoing down the stairs"; 'echo' implies a lack of response - no one is there to support the persona "The voice in your head recites the letter in a local dialect" "the sound of your mother singing to you" "A hate name. Red like blood"; racism that results from a difference in culture (C.R to Enoch Powell) "the coins in your palm will not translate"; refers to both the economic and linguistic struggle felt by the speaker (economy on words)