Let`s Look Closer

In the story were applied such stylistic devises: 

·             Repetitions:

“…perhaps -(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind -) perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster.”,  “But he said I wasn't able to go, nor" able to stand it after I got there…” , “The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.”, “Round and round and round -round and round and round -it makes me dizzy!” – these cases of repetition are used to put emphasis on the repetition of routine every day.

·             Parallel constructions :

“I don't know why I should write this. I don't want to. I don't feel able.”, “Personally, I disagree with their ideas. Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.” – to show the moral state of the main character.

·              Polysyndetons:

“So I take phosphates or phosphites whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well again.”, “It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people.”, “He said that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on.”, “And dear John gathered me up in his arms, and just carried me upstairs and laid me on the bed, and sat by me and read to me till it tired my head.”, “He said I was his darling and his comfort and all he had, and that I must take care of myself for his sake, and keep well.” – these cases of polysyndeton were used to give more dynamism to the utterances.

·            Asyndetons:

“It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village.”, “You are gaining flesh and colour, your appetite is better, I feel really much easier about you.”, “I find it hovering in the dining-room, skulking in the parlor, hiding in the hall, lying in wait for me on the stairs.” – are used for showing the chaotic way of thinking of the main character.

·            Epithets:

“physician of high standing”, “a delicious garden”, “sprawling flamboyant patterns”, “The colour…repellent, revolt…”, “a smouldering unclean yellow”, “atrocious nursery”, “blessed little goose”, “riotous old-fashioned flowers”, “velvet meadows”, “optic horror” – these epithets were used to give more expressiveness and vividness to the text.

·            Similes:

“lie awake as a child”, “chair that always seemed like a strong friend”, “it as good as gymnastics” – were used to make utterances more understandable trough the comparison with some other objects.

·         Oxymoron: “positively angry” – to show that the character is confusing the states in her mind.