METAPHOR
PERSONIFICATION
HYPERBOLE
ENUMERATION
COMPARISON
ASYNDETON
NOMINATIVE SENTENCES
ALLITERATION
PERIPHRASIS
CLIMAX
EPITHET
INVERSION
PARCELLATION
Tuscany is a state of grace. The countryside is so lovingly designed that the eye sweeps the
mountains and valleys without stumbling over a single stone. The lilt of the rolling green hills,
the upsurging cypresses, the terraces sculptured by generations that have handled the rocks with
skillful tenderness, the fields geometrically juxtaposed as though drawn by draftsman for beauty
as well productivity; the battlements of castles on the hills, their tall towers standing gray-blue
and golden tan among the forest of trees, the air of such clarity that every sod of earth stands out
in dazzling detail. Below him the fields were ripening with July barley and oats, beans and beets;
on both sides of the road the grape-heavy vines were espaliered between the horizontal branches
of silver-green olive trees, composing orchards of webbed design, rich in intimation of wine,
olive oil and lacy-leave poetry.
He had a sense of physical delight as his horse moved along the contours of a ridge,
rising ever higher into the flawless Italian sky, the air he breathed so pure that his whole being
felt ennobled, meanness and pettiness falling away from him: a rapture he experienced only
when he carved white marble. Tuscany untied the knots in a man’s intestines ALLUSION Дева
Мария, развязывающая узлы (Mary Untier of Knots)+ 9-денної молитви — дев'ятниці
до Богородиці, що розв'язує вузли, wiped out the ills of his world. God and man combined
to create this supreme work of art. Pictorially, Michelangelo thought, this might be the Garden of
Eden. Adam and Eve had departed, but to his sculptor’s eye, scanning the undulating ranges
which flowed backward in space with lyricism of the green river winding through the valley
below him, dotted with stone houses, sun-mellowed tile roofs, hayricks. Tuscany was paradise.
– 2D PARAHRAPH CONVERGENCE
Adam and Eve- INTERTEXTUAL HINT.