Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray,can u find any devices?

Question

(imagery, rhyme,
meter, theme, mood, and tone)

Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses,
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of

Answer 1

personication:
the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs;

simile:
the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs

image:
gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum,

figurative language:
tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs

mood:
fanciful, dreamlike

Tone:
suffocating bliss



good luck

Answer 2

Imagery-"tremulous" branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so "flamelike" as theirs

Rhyme-there came through the open "door" the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering "thorn."

Lord Henry "Wotton" could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured "blossoms" of a laburnum

whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to "bear" the burden of a beauty so flamelike as "theirs"

Meter-?

Theme-Aesthetics, Beauty of Natural things

Mood - Flowery, Homage, Adoration

Tone-Cultured, Privledged, Higher class, Aristocratic

This is just off the type of my head. I had to look up each in the dictionary and try to apply the definitions to the excerpt, although I can't help you with meter.

Answer 3

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Study Guides:

These links will give you a summary of the book, character analysis, plot and much more, so that you will be able to answer literary questions.

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-144.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/

http://www.novelguide.com/ThePictureofDorianGray/

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPictureDorian01.asp

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/dorian/

http://www.awerty.com/dorian2.html

http://www.bookrags.com/notes/dg/

Answer 4

Precious, you need to do your own homework.