Lewis intentionally compares the players to inanimate objects to dehumanize the players into mere commodities.

The common implied metaphor of scoops (for information) is used by Lewis.

The simile gives the sense that Billy is not only more physically imposing than the other GMS, but cunning and crafty; furthermore, the other GMs are characterized as feminine and easily dominated by the lupine Beane.

Lewis connects all of his metaphors together to show the different angles that Beane uses during his conversation with Phillips.

By animating Phillips, Lewis gives the sense that Billy views the other GMs as animals that he can easily control.

This interaction shows the confidence that Beane exudes as general manager.

Lewis uses both anaphora and anadiplosis in the same passage to imply the fact that all the events were connected and they all led to his demise. Furthermore, the use of "enabled" with his exiting the batter's box is oxymoron.

The oxymoron that Lewis uses intensifies the description of suffering with the dichotomy with eloquent.

By putting the two statements right beside each other, he creates an immediate dichotomy that further emphasizes Billy's failure.

The epanalepsis of "Good Face" places it in prominent locations in both of the sentences so as to make the point stick in the audience's conscious.

Lewis uses the anadiplosis to create the dichotomy between the "appearance and reality."

The antithesis used by Lewis exemplifies how proud the baseball community by contrasting them with the IT community.

Tenor: his natural skill Vehicle: antennae Ground: an inherent part of something aptly attuned to another object

Lewis uses anadiplosis to explain his reasoning as to why the A's play so well after the All-Star break with the continuation seeming like a flowing thought.

Tenor: pitchers Vehicle: flamethrowers Ground: throw an object (or substance) with much speed in a concentrated direction

Along with the following use of "abstruse statistical arguments" two lines down, Lewis uses anaphora to create the explicit comparison between these new statisticians in Morris and the seasoned saber-metricians such as DePodesta.

Lewis uses asyndeton to give the effect of the list's smaller size.

Lewis shows that the savvy of the A's has alienated them from the other front offices as the "obscene amount of talent" they've gotten has come at the expense of the player's former team.

Lewis uses this example to show how advanced the Oakland A's were in their consistent use of saber-metrics, thus creating separation in the ideology of the organization and the rest of the MLB that in some regard alienated them.

Lewis uses asyndeton to emphasize the talent that he has received through his inventive methods.

Lewis uses the antithesis to further his theme of alienation throughout the novel.

Lewis creates the dichotomy between the two relief pitchers to exemplify how poor Magnante was at 37 years old.

The use of strapped also refers to the "braces" that Magnante has on his legs.

Lewis uses anadiplosis to emphasize how poor of a time Magnante chose to pitch poorly.

Solomon uses dunk instead of splash or something of the like to take the inherent triviality of jumping into the water out. Dunk sounds more athletic, and Spitfire is, as Solomon puts it, "One of the World's Great Athletes."

By referring to the dog's snout as aristocratic, Solomon paints the picture that Spitfire is among dock-diving royalty, not just a normal, everyday competitor.

Solomon begins to call Spitfire the athlete to change the perspective of the reader to the dog as more of a competitor than a domesticated pet.

Solomon replaces water with drink, a metonymy.

Solomon uses lured to draw back to the idea of the lure that the dogs are made to jump towards.

Solomon uses champ instead of dog to convey a sense of competitiveness, a feeling that dog would not express.

Instead of leaving the reader with a vague description of 31 feet, Solomon uses clear context to make the distance less abstract.

Solomon uses a complex sentence filled with different modifiers to contrast with his simple statement of the joy derived from seeing dogs jump into the water.

By using someone the general public would know is tall, Solomon gives a more concrete reference than a mere use of "7 feet" would.

If one does not know of the sheer length of this car, the concrete description will not stick, but for his audience who either already know or who are more curious to check will be amused by the reference.

Instead of saying exactly what Spitfire does, Solomon builds up to what Spitfire does by creating a spectrum and purposefully placing Spitfire in it.

The dog has been trained to even respond to his name, opposed to untrained dogs who need incessant calls from their owner to even sit. Solomon uses this phrase to further distinguish this dog from other, normal dogs.

The language of this sentence is all that of martial type starting with the comparison of his scraggly, long, black-and-white beard with that of the Taliban and the personification of the beard as "crawling" up to refer back to his mountainous roots, a place which forces one to be able to survive anywhere as military forces must be able to.

The allusion doubles as a direct picture of the scene at that beach as people's feet were loose from their body.

The rhetorical question plays with the audience's desire for a breakthrough in the case by posing the certainty that there was a connection but suddenly retracting it.

Using cigarette smoke instead of mist refers back to how these people are addicts, and one of the common addictions is to smoking (i.e., cigarettes).

The puzzle pieces is a metaphor that refers back to Solomon's description of people as needing order, just as completing a puzzle does.

Solomon uses humor to bring levity to the situation.

The anaphora that Solomon uses is a reference of how humans crave order, and the anaphora creates an explicit sense of order that is very pleasing to the reader.

Solomon continues the water-related metaphors to refer back to the sea in which the feet were found.

Starting with the personification of the sea that "licks" Great Vancouver, Solomon continues with the water-related descriptions with his "drinking straw" simile to refer back to where these macabre pieces of evidence were first found.

Solomon likens the pictures to flash cards as they are both studied intensively, flashcards for a test, and the pictures to recreate a crime scene. He uses grim to not accidentally bring levity to the mysterious deaths.

The metonymy of replacing case with start of everything gives a better sense of how unresolved and peculiar the case is. If he had used case, the audience might jump to the conclusion that the story had been open-and-shut.

Solomon uses puzzle to refer to how puzzling the case was as its "pieces" were not fitting together.

By saying the day is moody, Solomon personifies the day to show a clearer contrast between the normal weather of Jedediah Island and this peculiar day. Also, the personification foreshadows the macabre findings of the girl later that day.

Solomon's metaphor shows not only the immediate impact of what Wielgus's comments portrayed, but also the shower of backlash that would come to anyone near to or connected with the comments, therefore prompting any of his powerful supporters to stop supporting him.

Again, Solomon refers to the charged world of politics and how this finding shook the already primed field up, foreshadowing Wielgus's exile from this field.

The mist looks like it is caught on the jagged edges of the mountain as they all crowd around the peaks, as if the mist were moving and were forcefully stuck in place haphazardly.

The personification of the land as dressed refers to the falling leaves of reddish color that make it look like the land put on a shirt of the aforementioned color.

Solomon goes back to the metaphor of the the lit match in a powder keg with charged, referring to how dangerous it is to challenge so outspokenly the world of wolves.

Solomon uses the word humans instead of people to make them sound more like animals than people, an animation that the author employs masterfully.

The metonymy that Solomon uses not only refers to the Republicans who want to remove the wolves but to the red of blood presumably coming from the dead wolves.

Solomon uses this extended metaphor to show explosive the debate that Wielgus was having with, as the author puts it, "powerful forces." By using this metaphor, Solomon shows how quickly Wielgus's life was changed by his study of wolves, akin to Solomon's figurative device.

Solomon uses blistering to exemplify how painful-to-the-touch and abrasive the conflicts were.

Slumping down is an action that one does when they are gloomy, so the personification of the winter as slumping down not only refers to America's being due south of Canada, but also that the day is downcast.

Not only does Solomon use the sibilance in smolder to remind one of the crackling sound of something burning, but he also uses the simile of a fuse because they both burn out quickly as opposed to a campfire or something of the like.

Solomon uses lichen because they look out of order and unkempt, a picture that he wants the audience to envision when they think about Wielglus's goatee.

The f-sounds remind one of the sound air makes when one makes a sudden movement, such as turning around. Therefore, the abundance helps to create an acoustic as well as a visual picture. The last sentence goes into the mind of the author as he doesn't need to push things out the become focused, he does exactly the opposite and internalizes everything around him, becoming hyper-aware.

This is the same extended metaphor of the ethereality of the place.

The author continues the extended metaphor about the supernatural nature of the crater, looking back to cite further examples.

The author uses the quotation from Hubbard to continue his description of the area leading up to and encompassed by the crater as ethereal.

Again, the author gives a sense of how disconnected the group is from civilization with the simile making it seem as if the group was so far away from anything that sound did not even venture that far away from life.

The plosive sounds remind one of footsteps, specifically the footsteps of the narrator as his journey continues.

The visual imagery coupled with the onomatopoeia paints a clearer picture for the audience.

The allusion to the naturalistic writer Jack London makes the reader think of a hard-working, unassuming person.

The metonymy that Solomon employs is just used to give a better sense of how huge and intimidating a bear is as the word itself would not convey.

Solomon continues the extended metaphor of personifying the gun to show how important it is to the survival of the group just as another person would have been.

Solomon uses a simple allusion to give a flailing reader a picture of what the fourth member is as it is a gun and not a person as Solomon had personified the "fourth member of our group" as.

Instead of continuing the description of how rough the area they are going is, Jimmy's quotation exemplifies how much one is really left to fend for themselves out there.

The hyperboles help to show the seeming enormity of the plants and the obstacles they propose.

Solomon uses an interesting simile by using a reversed-out image instead of using a direct simile to emphasize his desires to go where people are not seen, to take the road not traveled.

The simile gives a better sense as to the scattered and sparse nature of the villages as one who is in danger of being evicted doesn't stay in an obvious place, but tries to avoid being noticed by said landlord (in this case, nature).

Tony Soprano is an obvious allusion to the revered Sopranos movies. However, as Tony Soprano is a mobster, the need for "gentle" is needed to give the correct sense to which Jimmy runs the town: not as a corrupt gangster, but a compassionate leader.

The description of Jimmy's sweatshirt with "ample gray acreage" is used to intensify the visual imagery of a small agrarian town such as Port Heiden.

Solomon uses diction to give the reader in the story a sense of how connected the community is owing to its small population; conversely, Solomon could have just put the fact that the two greeted each other, but the same effect would not be achieved.