“On Growing Up White Trash” by Heather O’Neill

The author of "On Growing Up White Trash" demonstrates why white trash is a culture using literary devices like repetition and simile. There are numerous instances of repetition usage in this essay, but one is when the author describes her childhood home that she grew up in: “We had fake stained glass unicorns hanging from little suction cup hooks on the living-room window. We had stacks of old telephone books and a fish tank with no fish in it”(O’Neill, 33). The author puts emphasis on the collective by repeating the collective pronoun "we" in order to illustrate her point that white trash…