This question is based on Literary Principles.
The commissioner, who was also the local magistrate, peered at the two men. He did not go near because fastidiously he too wished to avoid the odour of travel that clung to them. Except for the alpaca jacket which he wore in the office, he was a model of starched and expensive neatness from his lean skull to the gleaming toes of his formal shoes’.
Alex La Guma, ‘Time of the Butcherbird’
From the italicized lines above, the writer condemns the Commissioner by employing a
- convenient setting
- contemptuous tone
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stark metaphor
- graphic description