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Entice Hercules Rhetorical Analysis

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The passage continues with repeated qualifications and repeated negations which serve to imply that the Narrator cannot — or decides not to — explicitly state what entices Erwin. In addition, the passage includes a simile comparing what entice Erwin to a “shimmer”, further implying that narrators incapability to directly share what object entices Erwin.

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