English, 24.05.2020 01:01 davidoj13

Read the excerpt from David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Three faces have resolved into place above summer-weight sportcoats and half -Windsors across a polished pine conference table shiny with the spidered light of an Arizona noon. These are three Deans-of Admissions , Academic Affairs , Athletic Affairs. I do not know which face belongs to whom . Which literary device is used in phrases such as "summer-weight sportcoats " and "polished pine"? allusion alliteration metaphor

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