The use of expressive means and stylistic devices in the given story

       The author used a lot of stylistic devices and expressive means in the story to describe all grandness of the story, and its atmosphere.

     Firstly, the author used  many cases of irony in  the story, for example one of the most ironic fact is that Mathilde and her husband worked hard for ten years to pay debts for necklace, that was very expensive as they thought, but at the end of the story they got to know that the necklace was not original, it was just fake. Another case of irony is Mathielde's beauty. She borrowed the necklace from her rich friend Madam Forestier to be seen more beautiful at the party and to emphasize her natural baeuty, but as a result the necklace led Mathielde not to the beauty, but to poorness and awful years of life. During these years she become like all the other strong, hard, coarse women of poor households.

     Moreover the author used a lot of stylistic devices to show the bright pictures of the main characters, their features, also the places and events which are in the text, for example the author used a great amount of epithets: natural delicacy, instinctive elegance, nimbleness of wit, black misery, ball dress, ruinous afreements and a lot of others.

    To describe the main characters, their attitude to each other and their speech the author used

    exclamation: "What do you want me to do with this?", "And what do you suppose I am to wear at such an affair?", "What's the matter with you? What's the matter with you?" , "What would be the cost of a suitable dress, which you could use on other occasions as well, something very simple?", "How stupid you are!" exclaimed her husband,   "What! . . . Impossible!", "How strange life is, how fickle! How little is needed to ruin or to save!" etc;

     comparison: "She had become like all the other strong, hard, coarse women of poor households.", "She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans".

  enumeration: She would weep whole days, with grief, regret, despair, and misery.",  "She was the prettiest woman present, elegant, graceful, smiling, and quite above herself with hapiness.", "She danced madly, ecstatically, drunk with pleasure...", "She had become like all the other strong, hard, coarse women of poor households",  "First she saw some bracelets, then a pearl necklace, then a Venetian cross in gold and gems, of exquisite workmanship".

   repetition: "She suffered from the poorness of her house, from its mean walls, worn chairs, and ugly curtains", "She had no marriage portion, no expectations, no means of getting known, understood, loved, and wedded by a man of wealth and distinction".

     

  Moreover, the author used asyndeton, to make narrative more dynamic, energatic and tense, for example: "She had no marriage portion, no expectations, no means of getting known, understood, loved, and wedded by a man of wealth and distinction; and she let herself be married off to a little clerk in the Ministry of Education", "I had tremendous trouble to get it. Every one wants one; it's very select, and very few go to the clerks", "He had not thought about it; he stammered".

A combination of these expressive means and stylistic devices makes the author's style highly original and easily recognizable.