Sunday, November 15, 2015

What rhetorical device is used in this excerpt of the devil and tom walker and how?


"Instead that he should turn usurers, looking upon them as his peculiar people. To this no objections were made, for it was just to Tom's taste. "you shall open a broker's shop in Boston next month," said that black man. "I'll do it tomorrow if you wish," said Tom Walker. "You shall lend money at two per cent a month." "Egad, i'll charge four!" replied Tom Walker. "You shall extort bonds, forclose mortgages, drive the merchant into bankruptcy."

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