Lexical Expressive Means (Stylistic Devices)

Epithet
1. Blown by a mild, friendly wind, the large droplets that were already drenching the rooftops of London and causing people to scurry in the streets below, beckoned him from his book with their insistent patter on the glass. (1, 26)
2. Yet it was a golden morning. (6, 528)
3. And so it stood, a warm and vivid patch in his life, casting a radiance that glowed in a thousand recollections. (7, 95)

Hyperbole
1. The change seemed ages coming. (1, 30)
2. For he did not, he would have said, care for women; he never felt at home or at ease with the; and that monstrous creature beginning to be talked about, the New Woman of the nineties, filled him with horror. (7, 90)

Irony
1. Perhaps this was his wife. He smiled at this unfamiliar thought. He, a bachelor who drank deeply and satisfyingly from the heady cup of successful bachelorhood. (1, 27)
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