Stylistic devices: Apply your knowledge to Salman Rushdie's /In the South/

(Note: This is the first paragraph of Rushdie's short story. Just read it and enter a single dot (".") as answer.) Salman Rushdie – In the South The day that Junior fell down began like any other day: the explosion of heat rippling the air, the trumpeting sunlight, the traffic’s tidal surges, the prayer chants in the distance, the cheap film music rising from the floor below, the loud pelvic thrusts of an “item number” dancing across a neighbor’s TV, a child’s cry, a mother’s rebuke, unexplained laughter, scarlet expectorations, bicycles, the newly plaited hair of schoolgirls, the smell of strong sweet coffee, a green wing flashing in a tree. Senior and Junior, two very old men, opened their eyes in their bedrooms on the fourth floor of a sea-green building on a leafy lane, just out of sight of Elliot’s Beach, where, that evening, the young would congregate, as they always did, to perform the rites of youth, not far from the village of the fisherfolk, who had no time for such frivolity. The poor were puritans by night and day. As for the old, they had rites of their own and did not need to wait for evening. With the sun stabbing at them through their window blinds, the two old men struggled to their feet and lurched out onto their adjacent verandas, emerging at almost the same moment, like characters in an ancient tale, trapped in fateful coincidences, unable to escape the consequences of chance. […] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/05/18/in-the-south

the *explosion* of heat rippling the air

the explosion of heat *rippling* the air

the *trumpeting* sunlight

the traffic’s *tidal* surges

the cheap film music *rising* from the floor below

the *loud pelvic thrusts* of an “item number” dancing across a neighbor’s TV

the *newly plaited hair* of schoolgirls

*a green wing* flashing in a tree

a green wing *flashing* in a tree

Senior and *Junior*, two very old men

a sea-green building on a *leafy* lane

*a sea-green building on a leafy lane*

the young would *congregate*

who had no time for such *frivolity*

The poor were *puritans* by night and day.

As for the old, they had *rites of their own* and did not need to wait for evening.

As for the old, they had rites of their own and *did not need to wait for evening*.

With *the sun* stabbing at them

With the sun *stabbing* at them

the two old men *struggled* to their feet and *lurched* out onto their adjacent verandas

*emerging at almost the same moment*, like characters in an ancient tale

emerging at almost the same moment, *like characters in an ancient tale*

*trapped* in *fateful* coincidences

*unable to escape the consequences of chance*

Which king of narrator does Rushie use?

Which sentence would be the best thesis statement for a paragraph in an analysis?

Which sentence would be the best thesis statement for a paragraph in an analysis?