Enumeration

1. enumeration

ENUMERATION
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2. What is enumeration?

WHAT IS ENUMERATION?
• Enumeration is a rhetorical device used for listing the
details or a process of mentioning words or phrases
step by step. In fact, it is a type of amplification or
division in which a subject is further distributed into
components or parts.

3. Oscar wilde “The picture of Dorian Gray”

OSCAR WILDE
“THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY”
• “Stay, Harry,” said Hallward, looking at this picture.
“And now, Dorian, get up on the platform, and
don’t move about too much, or listen to what
Lord Henry says. He has a very bad influence over
all his friends.”

4.

•Words! How terrible they were!
How clear, and bright, and
dangerous!

5.

• No, you don’t feel it now. Some day, when you are old
and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has left lines on
your forehead, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly.
• It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or
spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that
silver moon.
• But what the gods give you, they quickly take away.
You have only a few years in which to live really,
perfectly, and fully.

6.

•And now he stood looking at his own
beauty. Yes, there would be a day when
his face would be wrinkled, his eyes
dull and colourless, the body broken
and deformed.

7.

•One should sympathize with the colour,
the beauty, the joy of life. The less said
about life’s sores, the better.

8.

•The masses feel that drunkenness,
stupidity, and immorality should be their
own special property, and that if anyone
of us makes an ass of himself he is
poaching on their preserves.