This passage creates a tone of curiosity and loathing. The girl hates the doll that she has, but she is interested to take it apart and see how it works.
Diction: clucking, revolted, moronic eyes, pancake face, orangeworms hair, unyielding limbs, bone-cold, single-stroke, bleat
The diction of clucking, revolted, and moronic all convey a sense of hatred and disgust. A pancake face and orangeworm hair with unyielding limbs show that she is frustrated with the appearance of the doll. Bone-cold, single-stroke, and bleating all describe the disgusting nature of the doll.
Imagery: big, special, the loving gift, blue-eyed baby doll, round moronic eyes, pancake face, orangeworm hair, dimpled hands, tapered fingers, starched gauze, blue eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned, pearly teeth stuck out like two piano keys between red bowline lips, bleat of a dying lamb,
All of these words create an image of disgusting nature and the dismembered body demonstrating her hatred of the doll.
Details: begun with Christmas, fondest wish, physically revolted, secretly frightened, desire to dismember it.
These details once again show her hatred and show that she wants to discover how the doll works and she can accomplish that by dismembering it.
All of the language is harsh and unyielding. She gets angry with the doll and is not satisfied with it. She starts to take out her frustration on this doll but tearing it apart. It is very descriptive. She is passionate about taking it apart.
Sentence Structure: Compound sentences, simple sentences, complex sentences, run on sentences. The long sentences cause the reader to be overwhelmed by the destruction.
From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The two tones are admiration and loneliness
Diction: Rich odor, delicate, Persian, honey-sweet, honey-colored, tremulous, silk curtains, pallid, sullen murmur, monotonous, dim roar.
This diction portrays a sense of beauty and admiration. The honey-colored and honey-sweet are god comparisons. Sullen murmur, monotonous, and dim roar, give a sense of loneliness and sullenness.
Imagery: light summer wind, heavy scent of lilac, delicate perfume, pink-flowering thorn, innumerable cigarettes, honey-colored blossoms of a laburnum, tremulous branches, fantastic shadows, jade-faced, unmown grass, the stillness more oppressive
Through all of these images a sense of admiration and loneliness come out. Fantastic shadows is a great examples of both. Fantastic gives a feeling of admiration, while shadows conveys loneliness.
Details: open door, smoking as was his custom, hardly able to bear the burden
All of these details convey of admiration of the openness and willingness. The custom of smoking brings the darkness and loneliness back
Language is sophisticated and admirable, but towards the end becomes more rough than admirable
Sentence structure: Long sentences with lots of commas, driving home the tone.