Stylistic Devices

In order to portray the characters to describe the setting and to render the atmosphere of the passage vividly and convincingly the author of the analyzed passage resorts to the following devices:

1)lexical: metaphor- “THE SCRATCHED EXPERIMENT SHUNS THE THORN.”, “"THE BURNT EXPERIMENT SHUNS THE FIRE." personification -  "The moon got loose last night, and slid down and fell out of the scheme --a very great loss; it breaks my heart to think of it"; "brilliant yellow and red flares shot up through the smoke" metonymy  - "If it is a reptile, and I suppose it is; for it has frowzy hair and blue eyes, and looks like a reptile. It has no hips; it tapers like a carrot; when it stands, it spreads itself apart like a derrick; so I think it is a reptile, though it may be architecture." ; "For I feel like an experiment, I feel exactly like an experiment; it would be impossible for a person to feel more like an experiment than I do, and so I am coming to feel convinced that that is what I AM--an experiment; just an experiment, and nothing more." periphrasis -  “"Oh, you fire, I love you, you dainty pink creature, for you are BEAUTIFUL--and that is enough!”,"  It has ceased from lying around, and goes about on its four legs now. Yet it differs from the other four legged animals, in that its front legs are unusually short, consequently this causes the main part of its person to stick up uncomfortably high in the air, and this is not attractive. It is built much as we are, but its method of traveling shows that it is not of our breed. The short front legs and long hind ones indicate that it is a of the kangaroo family, but it is a marked variation of that species, since the true kangaroo hops, whereas this one never does.", “she is a quite remarkably comely creature --lithe, slender, trim, rounded, shapely, nimble, graceful; and once when she was standing marble-white and sun-drenched on a boulder, with her young head tilted back and her hand shading her eyes, watching the flight of a bird in the sky, I recognized that she was beautiful.” euphemisms -  “he is as God make him, and that is sufficient.” : “the smile of God ” irony – “It is up there yet. Resting, apparently. But that is a subterfuge: Sunday isn't the day of rest; Saturday is appointed for that. It looks to me like a creature that is more interested in resting than it anything else. It would tire me to rest so much. It tires me just to sit around and watch the tree. I do wonder what it is for; I never see it do anything.”; “When I found it could talk I felt a new interest in it”:  

epithet - “beautiful creatures”, “transparent bluish film rose out of the hole”, “cunning and pretty”, “it was useless, it was a foolishness and a vanity ”, “dainty pink creature”, “He is strong and handsome” “she is a quite remarkably comely creature --lithe, slender, trim, rounded, shapely, nimble, graceful; and once when she was standing marble-white and sun-drenched on a boulder, with her young head tilted back and her hand shading her eyes, watching the flight of a bird in the sky, I recognized that she was beautiful.”. simile - "  It looks no more like a dodo than I do.", "  That sounds like a cheap fling at the poor creature", "  not like kangaroo fur, but
exactly like our hair except that it is much finer and softer,", "The new one is as ugly as the old one was at first".

2)syntactical: ellipsis – “FEAR.”, “Tuesday--Wednesday--Thursday--and today”, “FLAMES”, “and said OUCH!”, “Fire-coals.”: aposiopesis - "I wish it would stay with the other animals. . . . Cloudy today, wind in the east; think we shall have rain. . . . WE?" : inversion – “Resting, apparently”, “It is pleasant again, now, and I am happy”;  repetitions – “I AM--an experiment; just an experiment”;  climax -  "And this new sound is so close to me; it is right at my shoulder, right at my ear, first on one side and then on the other, and I am used only to sounds that are more or less distant from me", " the result will be a great and fine and noble education ";

3)phonetic: alliteration- “he is MINE and is MASCULINE”  I wish it would stay", " It looks no more like a dodo than I do.", " does not look like " ;

4)graphic: capitalization - “THE SCRATCHED”, “EXPERIMENT SHUNS THE THORN”, “SO happy!”, “HE; dative, HIM; possessive, HIS'N”, “OUCH!”, “FIRE!”, “BEAUTIFUL” “SMOKE!”, “NOTHING interests him”, “KNOW”, “you CAN'T find out”,“Of course it DOESN'T come down,”, “THAT I know”, “MERELY BECAUSE HE IS MASCULINE”, “he is MINE and is MASCULINE”, “It just COMES”, “ADAM: Wheresoever she was, THERE was Eden”.