Stylistic Devices in The Samaritan Act 1 Scene 2

Stylistic Devices in The Samaritan Act 1 Scene 2

Stylistic devices in The Samaritan  1. Imagery a. Vivid Description  A spacious rectangular-shaped room with a large pine oval table with high back  executive office chairs (P. 20). b. Simile I am as broke as a church mouse (P. 31). c. Hyperbole Mossi tells Ted and Seymour, “I can make you see real smoke and can strike harder  than thunder (P. 35)” 2. Elipsis Mossi says, “Look you fools, the situation is very bad and we cannot….(P. 35). 3. Idiomatic expression Over my dead body (P. 33). 4. Rhetorical Questions Mossi asks Ted and Seymour, “How can you justify your current financial status? (P. 35).” He further asks them, “Who doesn’t know you have stolen the money? (P. 35).” 5. Irony It is ironical that Jaden is a judge who should be maintaining law and order , yet when he meets Mossi, Ted, and Seymour he argues, “….what matters is not what you do, but how you do it (P. 29).” He goes further stating that one can fly into forbidden territory and still get away with it, provided it’s done below the radar …

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