Expressive means and stylistic devices

While reading the story I noticed expressive means and stylistic devices and some of them were in frequent use. Here are they:

Lexical: 1) metaphor: "vulture eye" used to ewake in a reader the imagination of the eye ; 2)personification: "idea entered my brain, it...haunted me" used to show the power of the murderous thought; 3)metonymy: "all the world slept" used to magnify the scale of the situation; 4)simile: "a single dim ray, like the thread of the spider", "a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton", "room was as black as pitch" used to make the description more accurate;5) epithet: "wild audacity", "dreadful silence", "stifled sound", "dreadful echo" used to convey the atmosphere of the scene. Besides, there are examples of stylistic potential of noun: "terrors". "labors", ''fatigues'' where words denote expressivness and their s-form intensifies the meaning.

Syntectical: 1) repetition: "I heard...I heard", "...there was none...there was none", ''He had never...he had never'', ''closed,closed", ''steadily,steadily'', ''cautiously, cautiously'', all in vein. All in vein'', louder and louder'' etc used to transfer the feelings of the main hero, especcially his nervous state of mind; 2)inversion: ''For his gold I had no desire'', ''had I felt'', ''I then replaced'' used to draw attention; 3) gradation: ''true! nervous - very very  dreadfully nervous'', with what cautious - with what foresight - with what dissimulation'' used to develop the flow of the story and to convey the situation;

Phonetic: 1) alliteration: ''disease had sharpened my senses'', ''madmen know nothing'', ''still they sat and still chatted'' etc; 2) assonance: ''he was still sitting in the bed'', ''true! nervous - very very  dreadfully nervous'' etc;

Graphic: 1) capitalization: ''TRUE! NERVOUS...'', ''Evil Eye'', ''Death'' used to draw attention; 2) absence of capitalization: ''...and I am! but...'', ''of the senses? now...''; 2) hyphenation: ''I foamed - I raved - I swore'', ''louder-louder-louder'', ''scream or die!-and now-again!'', ''it was open wide, wide open-and I grew'' etc used to emphasize particular moments of the story and to show emotional state of the character.