What literary devices are used in this text!?by oscar wild?

Question

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 flame like 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 Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion. The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive. The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.

In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement and gave rise to so many strange conjectures.

Answer 1

In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton delights in transforming trite truisms into outrageous paradoxes by reversing the presuppositions on which they are based. Though Wotton never openly attacks social conventions, he exposes the hypocrisy of Victorian values by turning them upside down. Like Sir Thomas in the cited passage, many Victorian critics could not handle Wilde's paradoxical style and iconoclastic thinking. They often disparaged Wilde's style of "showy paradoxes" as a boring, mechanical trick.


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

Bathos
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.

Figurative language
the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum

Hyperbole
producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect

Imagery
From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags

Simile
the long tussore-silk curtains
The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.


Metonymy
jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion

Omniscient narrator
the overall narrator

Oxymoron
stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty,


Volta
sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement and gave rise to so many strange conjectures.

Zeugma
monotonous insistence







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