The snow fell lightly leaving a thin dusting on the rooftops. bells rang in the distance. shoppers lined the sidewalks balancing brightly wrapped packages with neatly tied bows. it was a perfectly lovely christmas eve in new england.

what technique does the author use in this example?

Read the passage. and thus they fought all the long day, and never stinted till the noble knights were laid to the cold earth. and ever they fought still till it was near night, and by then was there a hundred thousand laid dead upon the down. in the passage from morte d’arthur by sir thomas malory, what are the bolded words an example of?