Lexical Stylistic Devices

Epithet 1) Like so many of those whose only troubles are the troubles of others, she had carried her girlish looks well on into middle age, through her neat straight hair was now sleek silver. (Source 1, page 13) 2) My wide-hipped, heavy-lidded wife had been carried off during my mother’s discourse.(Source 2, page 32) Metaphor 1) She is crying and her tears fall heavily. (Source 4, page 41) 2) He was nearly thirty and had accomplished nothing; only his miserable book of poems that had fallen flatter than any pancake. (Source 3, page 8) Metonymy 1) There are two mouths to feed in my family. (Source 2, page 32) 2) Those are some nice threads. (Source 4, page 20)