Lexical Stylistic Devices

Epithet
1. It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. [1: 3]
2. He gave one last look across the sky, across that magnificent silver land where he had learned so much. [1: 37]
Hyperbole
1. Also because it has this big old madman desk in it that D.B. bought off some lady alcoholic in Philadelphia, and this big, gigantic bed that’s about ten miles wide and ten miles long. [10: 159]
2. It was about five hundred thousand years in the life of this one old couple. [10: 125]…