Rhetorical Devices In On The Rainy River

In the sixty-fourth paragraph in Tim O'Brien's "On the Rainy River" chapter, the author uses some rhetorical devices such as repetition, fragments, and an allusion to help make his argument more effective. He uses repetition of words like "a crushing sorrow, sorrow like I had never known it before." to show how distressed he was over the fact that his dream to run away to Canada will never come true. Another repetition of words was when he was describing his childhood he kept saying how "I saw a seven-year-old boy... a pair of holstered six-shooters; I saw a twelve-year-old Little League; I saw a sixteen-year-old kid...” (O’Brien). The fact that he is picturing some of his memoires shows that he is wondering if moving to Canada is worth leaving