Epithet

A.J. Cronin

The author uses polysyndeton to bring out every detail and to slow down the action.

2. It was possible to buy fruit and fish and vegetables cheaply there.

A.J. Cronin

3. He brought his arm down and stopped smiling and looked at the fire hydrant and beyond the fire hydrant the gutter and beyond the gutter the street, Ventura, and on both sides of the street houses and in the houses people and at the end of the street the country where the vineyards and orchards were and streams and meadows and then mountains and beyond the mountains more cities and more houses and streets and people.

W. Saroyan

Chiasmus

1. “If they’d done anything to you – after all you’ve done for me I’d – Oh! I’d have killed that old President.”

A. J. Cronin

The author juxtaposes two ideas.

2. “It looks to me,”continued Soames, “as if she were sweeter on him than he is on her. She’s always following him about.”

J. Galsworthy

3. Gratitude was no virtue among Forsytes, who, competitive, and full of commonsense, had no occasion for it; and Soames only experienced a sense of exasperation amounting to pain, that he did not own her as it was his right to own her, that he could not, as by stretching out his hand to that rose, pluck her and sniff the very secrets of her heart.

J. Galsworthy

4. “In the days of old men made the manners; Manners now make men”

J. Byron

This is a famous epigram by Byron, the author, who favoured chiasmus.

5. “Surely they don’t want me for myself, for myself is the same old self they did not want.”

J.London

Climax (Gradation)

1. He was sick, shattered, on the verge of a complete collapse.

A. J. Cronin

The author gives gradual increase in emotional evaluation of the condition of the character.

2. His startled sisters looked, and before the servant girl could get there, the bread plate wobbled, slid, flew to the floor, and broke into shivers.