Stylistic devices in The Samaritan
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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 (P29). This clearly shows that he is ready to justify all injustice in maracas municipality. Furthermore, he believes in corruption. He thinks that the only way to pull down the information from the App is by use of money to influence their pursuers (P. 31).