Tribute by Alfred Coppard. Find lexical stylistic devices and analyze

(e.g. the repetitions of the scene of sending off towar).

The author’s idiom is terse. Factual statements, sometimes embedded with short commentary, occupy a large part of the text. There are some metaphors, metonymies, similes and periphrases here, capable of combining the direct meaning with transparent implications, but not many. Everything in the story is in accord with propriety and decency. However, the matter-of-fact developments of the story hide broad implications, and finally rise to philosophical generalizations.

The basic device used by the author is contrast. Only the first sentence serves to show what actually unites the two characters they live in Braddle, work together and court the samegirl, Patience by name. But that’s where similarity ends and contrast comes to the fore. The two characters are given speaking names and are described with a few accurate words, which are, nevertheless, enough, to picture each quite vividly. Nathan Regent is said to wear cloth uppers to his best boots (the sign of neatness and precaution) and is described as steady, silent and dignified. His rival Tony Vassal is called ‘happy-go-lucky’, which, paradoxically as it may seem, was the reason for the girl’s preference of him. The sentences that follow expand on why Nathan’s steadiness fades in the face of Tony’s rashness, why his silence, golden as it is, is not valued in the kingdom of courtship and his dignity is baffled by simple faith. The implications from this passage, richly embellished with extended