Stylistic devices in the text:

(The line numbers refer to the printed text handed out in class.)


depreciatory adjectices/terms:

appreciatory adjectices/terms:

descriptive adjectices:

onomatopoeia:

metaphor:

simile:

personification:

alliteration:

anaphora:


fossilized

ugly

awkward

ruptured

broken-off

squashed

desperate

forlorn

too much brown

damp

bootprints

mud

garden-hose

tennis-ball can

ax-handle

junk

dirt road

stuff

lovely

deceitful

beautiful

(blue)

(purple)

(clear)

fine

blue

purple

gray

warm

cold

clear

thick

early

squished

squashed

hushed

rumbles

rattling

twitch

turns a landscape into a line drawing (36)

its wheels churn thick whirls of dust

...exceeds that of fine carpeting (25)

...resembling...a bishop who...(52)

like spit on a griddle (88)

like porpoises (78)

like victorious tank commanders after a battle

in well-behaved years

dog and assistant dog

winter has forgotten its lines

the storm is muscular enough...

snow edits out corn stubble (35)

rabid teenagers turn reasonable (87)

a clear, cold day

skiers, not skaters

the decaying dollar

whiny wives

snug and snowed-in

man-made snow, machine-made s.

make heroes manifest

No snow. (l.1)

No snow. Not anywhere in New England. (l.22)

No snow, bygod, since .... (l. 40)

But there is no snow. (l. 63) [= variation to the repetition of "no snow"]

When snow has piled chest high...

No snow to mire cars, (L.112)

Still it does not snow. (l. 137) [= variation plus change of word category from noun to verb, a stylistic device which is called "polyptoton"]