Glossary

The New Law

• Understatement - The current government at that time was making sure to portray the new laws as an understatement and not as crucial of a change."
• Simile - "It felt as if we were like newborn children."

Life In Belarus

• Hyperbole - A lot of people expect me to tell them the world was splitting in half and millions of soldiers were at our doors."
• Antithesis - "It was definitely an antithesis, life was entirely opposite."

Changes

• Irony - "but the irony is..."
• Asyndeton - "he has nowhere to fish. Nowhere to hike. Nowhere to live."
• Allusion -  "Belarus was his Garden of Eden. "
• Appeal to Authority Fallacy - "It made me almost believe the fallacies from him..."
• Imagery - "A whiff of sweet, floral honey, or a taste of a familiar, tangy blackberry jam will bring back my childhood."
• Metaphor - "But, my wish to go back is a thorn, and I see my future elsewhere."