Epithet

2. Young puppies and old gray dogs who ought to have known better – oh, they all came up and crawled around her skirts and whined and fawned when she whistled.

J. London

The author uses the above-mentioned metaphor to describe old and young men.

3. “To me he is power – he is the primitive¸ the wild wolf, the striking rattlesnake, the stinging centipede”, said Arrellano.

J. London

The author compares the hero with the wild creatures.

4. In the whole atoll not two stones remained one upon another.

J. London

The author uses metaphor to stress that nothing safe remained in the whole atoll.

Simile

1. At times his mind wandered farther afield, and he plodded on, a mere automation, strange conceits and whimsicalities gnawing at his brain like worms.

J. London

The simple simile. The author draws a comparison between two different things “minds” and “worms”.

2. He threw off his pack and went into the rush grass on hands and knees, crunching and munching, like some bovine creature.

J. London

The sustained simile. The author draws the suggestive analogue.

3. His joints were like rusty hinges.

J. London

4. Again the rifles of the soldiers of Porfirio Diaz cracked, and again he dropped to the ground and slunk away like some hunted coyote of the hills.

J. London

Personification

1. The present storm had been born five days ago in the lee of the Colorado.

A. Hailey

The author personificates the storm.

2. Just as daylight laid its steel-gray fingers on the parchment window, Jacob Kent awoke.