confidential clerk in the office of Harvey Maxwell
climax
Parageaphs 21~30
theme
The romance of a Busy broker
figure of speeches
simile
1. 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.
2. His opened mail lay like a bank of stage snow on his crowded desk.
3.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.
4. Some of his own holdings were endangered, 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.
metaphor
1. here was a world of finance, and there was no room in it for the human world or the world of nature.
personification
1. The desk telephone had a chronic attack of buzzing.
hyperbole
1.Maxwell dashed at his desk as though he were intending to leap over it.
2. Messenger boys ran in and out with messages and telegrams.The clerks in the office jumped about like sailors during a storm.
3.Orders to buy and sell were coming and going as swift as the flight of swallows. 4.He dashed into the inner office and charged upon the desk of the stenographer
parallelism
1.On the Exchange there were humicanes and landslides and snowstorms and glaciers and volcanoes, and those elemental disturbances were reproduced in miniature in the broker's offices
metonymy
1.Maxwell shoved his chair against the wall and transacted business after the manner of a toe dancer, He jumped from ticker to phone, from desk to door.
exted
I hope my boyfriend and I propose to each other. In the heavy snow, he gently hugged me and said, I love you. Then he knelt on one knee and took out a rose with a ring tied to it.
