lexical devices

In order to portray the characters and to describe the setting  convincingly the author used a wide variety of lexical devices:

Epithets: “odorous masses”, “well-bred voices”, “upward look”; “convincing beauty”, “drawling words”, “virginal charm”;  “a swift, scarifying retrospect”  used to expressive languages.

Metaphors: “all the garbs of pretence and egoism”, “the ruins of his self-conceit”  used to express idea of the characters.

Hyperbole: “For the thousandth time he remarshalled in his mind” is to shows obsession on the problem.

Simile:“White favors like starsupon their coats shone through the gloom of the apartment”. to show preparations for event.“He had absorbed the oblation as a desert drinks the rain”, “How she fluttered like a snared bird when he laid his mightiness at her feet!” is the emotions of the women.

Oxymoron: “unworthy,sullen exultation” describes the psychological state.

Rhetoric questions: “Where was his fault?”, “Who had been to blame?”, “But why ?”, “Why had it ended thus?”  to shows the mood of character.

Inversion: “Thus, and wider from this on, they had drifted apart”.: “On the table stood a singular-looking green plant in a red earthen jar.”, “For the thousandth time he remarshalled in his mind…” underlines action and place.

Personification: “…he had absorbed the oblation as a desert drinks the rain that can coax from it no promise of blossom or fruit” to shows the admiration of girl.