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.

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.”

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

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.

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.

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