Question

Which rhetorical device is used in this excerpt from "The Extraordinary American" by G. K. Chesterton?

Answer 1

"He was a lean, dark man of color, having somewhat the look of a ratty tropical voyager, with a dark mustache and an eager and ready eye. In any case, the most peculiar thing about him was that the front of his jacket was secured with a considerable number of bright metallic images made in the state of stars and sickles.

I was all around acclimated at this point to Americans embellishing the lapels of their jackets with little images of different social orders; it is a piece of the American energy for the custom of comradeship.

There is nothing that an American likes to such an extent as to have a mysterious society and to make no mystery of it.

Be that as it may, for this situation, if I may put it in this way, the rash of imagery appeared to have broken out everywhere throughout the man, in a design that demonstrated that the fever was far cutting edge.

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