There are quite a few literary devices that are demonstrated in an excerpt from the book All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. An example of this is when the author makes the atmosphere of the excerpt seem unnerving and unsettling. He does this by putting daunting adjectives behind the nouns like when he describes the hallway as being cold. He does this again when he says, “the floorboards creaked under his boots”, “the portraits of forebears only dimly known” and when he says the glass was “dimly lit above the narrow wainscotting.” To continue, the author uses repetition in the last few sentences to emphasize that phrase. He does this so that the audience knows that the person the man in the black suit is looking down at a man that has