Question

Study these emphatic sentences. Comment on the expressive means and stylistic devices used.

3. Work in the ‘50s and ‘60s meant trudging to the same office for decades. Same colleagues. Same processes, mostly rote.
4. Customer data were nonexistent, or hopelessly unreliable.
5. Every player on this team will be evaluated – pass by pass, at-bat by at-bat – for the quality and uniqueness and timeliness and passion of her or his contribution.
6. And therein lies the peril, and the remarkable opportunity, of this weird, wired, wild new age of work.

Answer 1

3. Work in the '50s and '60s meant trudging to the same office for decades. Same colleagues. Same processes, mostly rote.

Stylistic device used is anaphora. Anaphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the start of sentences.

4. Customer data were nonexistent, or hopelessly unreliable.

This is an example of tautology - saying the same thing twice, but in different ways.

5. Every player on this team will be evaluated - pass by pass, at-bat by at-bat -for the quality and uniqueness and timeliness and passion of her or his contribution.

Parenthesis: this stylistic device is additional information that interrupts a sentence for emphasis. This can be enclosed by commas, brackets, or dashes.

6. And therein lies the peril, and the remarkable opportunity, of his weird, wired, wild new age of work.

Stylistic device used is alliteration; the repetition of the initial consonant sound.