Two Gentle People

Epithets

Comfortable silence

Simile

“Coffee was like a warning of old age”

they had experienced a lifetime, which as with butterflies was measured in hours.

Metaphor

“The spirit of adventure perhaps, he said. “

“‘I never expected… 'It's funny the way things happen, he added, laying unintentionally a heavy inscribed monument over that conversation.”

“Excitement made her lapse into French.”

“The heavy bourgeois atmosphere of the brasserie...”

“...it was the spirit of adventure which brought me back to live in Europe.”

He looks like a undertaker

A lovely afternoon

A beautiful umbrella

A hopeful day -

Pigeons like old grey tennis balls

Metonymy

“America didn't mean Coca- Cola and Time-Life when my father was young.”

Five feet of green metal

Oxymoron

It was a death-agony

A spray of white clouds

“...she said, this time with intentional stupidity.”

A sad meavy heart

the wind drop and the sky become empty

His silky Old-Word moustache like a badge of good behaviour

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.”And yet silence was not a genuine escape”

"... eyes alight with memories"

"...gave him a little smile"

This Period of solitude

His umbrella like a riding

“In the silence the two ghosts would have become more firmly planted...”

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"lovely afternoon"

"beautiful umbrella"


"Americans build never ages beautifully"

Irony


"taking life is our privelege"

Personification

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The looking-glass

synecdoche

The looking-glass ever told her