The cataloguing of the details of what is described

Fundamental Device I.—THE CATALOGUING OF DETAILS.

The simplest method of handling details is that of mere enumeration, of which the following is an example :

A.	MODEL.

The whitewashed walls, the little pews where well- known figures entered with a subdued rustling, and where first one well-known voice and then another, pitched in a peculiar key of petition, uttered phrases at once occult and familiar, like the amulet worn on the heart ; the pulpit where the minister delivered unques¬tioned doctrine, and swayed to and fro, and handled the book in a long-accustomed manner ; the very pauses between the couplets of the hymn, as it was given out, and the recurrent swell of voices in song ; these things had been the channel of divine influences to Marner. - GEORGE ELIOT, Silas Marner.

Minor devices used. Find a simile ; a metaphor.

B.	EXAMPLE FOR ANALYSIS.

Ichabod arrived at the castle of the Heer Van Tassel, which he found thronged with the pride and flower of the adjacent country. Old farmers, a spare leathern- faced race, in homespun coats and breeches, blue stockings, huge shoes, and magnificent pewter buckles. Their brisk withered little dames, in close-crimped caps, long-waisted short gowns, homespun petticoats, with scissors and pin cushions, and gay calico pockets hanging on the outside. Buxom lasses, almost as anti¬quated as their mothers, excepting where a straw hat, a fine ribbon, or perhaps a white frock, gave symptoms of city innovation. The sons, in short square-skirted coats with rows of stupendous brass buttons, and their hair generally queued in the fashion of the times, espec¬ially if they could procure an eelskin for the purpose, it being esteemed, throughout the country, as a potent nourisher and strengthener of the hair.

-	WASHINGTON IRVING, The Sketch-Book.

-	Minor devices used. metaphor.