What is the name of the device? [English]

[MCG]

This is the quotation:
"She had no fine dresses, no jewellery, nothing"[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]   [/font]


[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]What is the name of literary device?[/font]

 

[Fade]

What do you mean by literary device?

 

[MCG]

What do you mean by literary device?

In the same way that the device used in this quotation is personification:
"Two or three pencils that had survived"

Would you say the quotation in my first post is rhetorical language?

 

[Moon Knight]

Your quotation has no context to make a decision.

If you provided the full article, people probably wouldn't be so confused and thus give you an answer. (Full Article: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...o fine dresses, no jewellery, nothing&f=false)

In answer to your second post, no.

 

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I guess you could say alliteration for 'N' but even so it seems like a very weak claim.