Epithet

With the word “the controls” the author gives explanation of other animals being unexposed.

Anadiplosis (linking, reduplication)

1. He asked her to step in, and in she stepped.

A. Bennett

The author uses the same phrase both at the end of a clause and at the beginning of the successive one.

2. “There was a cold bitter taste in the air, and new-lighted lamps looked sad. Sad were the lights in the houses opposite.”

K. Mansfield

The author uses the same word “sad” both at the end of a sentence and at the beginning of the successive one.

3. With one hand, Danny was using a red telephone; with the other, leafing through emergency orders – Mel’s orders, carefully drawn up for occasions such as this.

A. Hailey

The author uses the same phrase both at the end of a clause and at the beginning of the successive one.

Ellipsis

1. “You see these three teeth?”

A. BennettThe author uses ellipsis to show that the character speaks in familiar colloquial tone.

2. “They should be through, or almost.” “They might be – if we could find the frigging truck”

A. Hailey

The word “through” is omitted, though the context of the sentence does not suffer.

3. “You can have your bit of snap straight off to-night. No surgery. Dai Jenkins done it.”

A. Hailey

Omission of link verb – “Dai Jenkins has done it”

4. “A pause, then more aggressively, “Any other damnfool stupid notion?”

A. Hailey Asyndeton

1. With a laugh he would rise, stretch himself, swing round his lenses, put the slides away.

A.J. Cronin

The author writes without conjunctions in order to speed up the action.