In order to portray the characters, to describe the setting and to render the general mood and atmosphere of the passage vividly and convincingly the author of the analysed passage resorts to the following devices:
- Lexical:
1) metaphor: : "plunged into the great heap of letters and telegrams waiting there for him", "the machine sitting at that desk was no longer a man; it was a busy New York broker, moved by buzzing wheels and uncoiling springs", "the broker's hour is not only crowded, but the minutes and seconds are hanging to all the straps and packing both front and rear platforms";
2) epithets: "expressionless countenance", "dreamily bright eyes","mild interest", "genuine peachblow cheeks", "a happy one expression","the alluring pompadour", "tinged with reminiscence", "perfect satisfaction", "wondering eyes", "high-geared", "strong machine", "old business", "dreamily bright eyes", "genuine peachblow cheeks", "alluring pompadour", "kind and frank eyes";
3) simile: : "his opened mail lay like a bank of stage snow on his crowded desk", "the clerks in the office jumped about like sailors during a storm", "orders to buy and sell were coming and going as swift as the flight of swallows", "the man was working like some high-geared, delicate, strong machine";
4) synonyms: "coming and going""rush and pace","loans and mortgages", "fiercer and faster", "buy and sell", , "stocks and bonds", "absend-minded and forgetful";
5) synecdoche: "...and not a single picture hat or piece of pineapple chewing gum has showed up yet", "the silver heart left the office"
- Syntactical:
1) polysyndeton: "on the Exchange there were hurricanes and landslides and snowstorms and glaciers and volcanoes, and those elemental disturbances were reproduced in miniature in the broker's offices" , "some of his own holdings were imperilled, and the man was working like some high-geared, delicate, strong machine - strung to full tension, going at full speed, accurate, never hesitating, with the proper word and decision and act ready and prompt as clockwork" ;
2) climax: "men began to throng into the office and call at him over the railing, jovially, sharply, viciously, excitedly".
O Henry also used in his story "A Romance of a Busy Broker" the literary element, which is called the situational irony. This part of the story is where O Henry uses his surprise ending to shock the reader. He did this by making the reader believe that Miss. Leslie was going to get replaced. Than surprising the reader, when Miss. Leslie tells Mr. Maxwell that they are already in love and married. Through out the story it was believed that Miss. Leslie was quite and did not associate with Mr. Maxwell. Then when Mr. Maxwell thinks to himself "By George, I'll do it now," said Maxwell half aloud "I'll ask her now. I wonder I didn't do it long ago" (O Henry_), the reader suspects that something is going to happen. Than as Mr. Maxwell explains to Miss. Leslie that he loves her and wants her to marry him, she tells him and the reader that they were married the night before by explaining, "Don't you remember, Harvey? We were married last night at eight o'clock in the little church around the corner (O Henry_)." As shown O Henry was very talented in writing stories and using the element of surprise to end his stories, this is what O Henry is known for.
Another literary element O Henry used is called foreshadowing . The author used it to convey to the reader what was to come. O Henry used this many times through out the story. He used this when he explained "Pitcher, still mildly curious, noticed a difference in her ways this morning... (O Henry_)." This shows that even thought Miss. Leslie was quite Mr. Pitcher could still see that something was different in the way she acted. Another example of foreshadowing is when tears started to fill up in Miss. Leslie's eyes after being told by Mr. Maxwell that he loves her and wants her hand in marriage. This element is how O Henry gives clues to the reader to tell them what is to come. The examples above foreshadow O Henry's surprise ending to this story. By using this he added to the suspense of the story because the reader wants to know what will happen.
The author brilliantly uses these stylistic devises which help to reveal the main character’s nature and to create a true-to-life atmosphere of the events depicted, bring home to the reader the main idea of the text.
- Lexical:
1) metaphor: : "plunged into the great heap of letters and telegrams waiting there for him", "the machine sitting at that desk was no longer a man; it was a busy New York broker, moved by buzzing wheels and uncoiling springs", "the broker's hour is not only crowded, but the minutes and seconds are hanging to all the straps and packing both front and rear platforms";
2) epithets: "expressionless countenance", "dreamily bright eyes","mild interest", "genuine peachblow cheeks", "a happy one expression","the alluring pompadour", "tinged with reminiscence", "perfect satisfaction", "wondering eyes", "high-geared", "strong machine", "old business", "dreamily bright eyes", "genuine peachblow cheeks", "alluring pompadour", "kind and frank eyes";
3) simile: : "his opened mail lay like a bank of stage snow on his crowded desk", "the clerks in the office jumped about like sailors during a storm", "orders to buy and sell were coming and going as swift as the flight of swallows", "the man was working like some high-geared, delicate, strong machine";
4) synonyms: "coming and going""rush and pace","loans and mortgages", "fiercer and faster", "buy and sell", , "stocks and bonds", "absend-minded and forgetful";
5) synecdoche: "...and not a single picture hat or piece of pineapple chewing gum has showed up yet", "the silver heart left the office"
- Syntactical:
1) polysyndeton: "on the Exchange there were hurricanes and landslides and snowstorms and glaciers and volcanoes, and those elemental disturbances were reproduced in miniature in the broker's offices" , "some of his own holdings were imperilled, and the man was working like some high-geared, delicate, strong machine - strung to full tension, going at full speed, accurate, never hesitating, with the proper word and decision and act ready and prompt as clockwork" ;
2) climax: "men began to throng into the office and call at him over the railing, jovially, sharply, viciously, excitedly".
O Henry also used in his story "A Romance of a Busy Broker" the literary element, which is called the situational irony. This part of the story is where O Henry uses his surprise ending to shock the reader. He did this by making the reader believe that Miss. Leslie was going to get replaced. Than surprising the reader, when Miss. Leslie tells Mr. Maxwell that they are already in love and married. Through out the story it was believed that Miss. Leslie was quite and did not associate with Mr. Maxwell. Then when Mr. Maxwell thinks to himself "By George, I'll do it now," said Maxwell half aloud "I'll ask her now. I wonder I didn't do it long ago" (O Henry_), the reader suspects that something is going to happen. Than as Mr. Maxwell explains to Miss. Leslie that he loves her and wants her to marry him, she tells him and the reader that they were married the night before by explaining, "Don't you remember, Harvey? We were married last night at eight o'clock in the little church around the corner (O Henry_)." As shown O Henry was very talented in writing stories and using the element of surprise to end his stories, this is what O Henry is known for.
Another literary element O Henry used is called foreshadowing . The author used it to convey to the reader what was to come. O Henry used this many times through out the story. He used this when he explained "Pitcher, still mildly curious, noticed a difference in her ways this morning... (O Henry_)." This shows that even thought Miss. Leslie was quite Mr. Pitcher could still see that something was different in the way she acted. Another example of foreshadowing is when tears started to fill up in Miss. Leslie's eyes after being told by Mr. Maxwell that he loves her and wants her hand in marriage. This element is how O Henry gives clues to the reader to tell them what is to come. The examples above foreshadow O Henry's surprise ending to this story. By using this he added to the suspense of the story because the reader wants to know what will happen.
The author brilliantly uses these stylistic devises which help to reveal the main character’s nature and to create a true-to-life atmosphere of the events depicted, bring home to the reader the main idea of the text.
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