What literary device does the author use a lot in "A Poetics for Bullies" (imagery, symbolism, metaphor, simile, personification, irony, allusion)?

Stanley Elkin uses the following literary devices (with
examples) in his short story "A Poetics For Bullies":

1.
Metaphor- a comparison between two things not using like or
as

I raise my
arms, I spread them. I'm a
bird

2. Simile- a comparison
between two things using "like" or "as"

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my head offering profile like something
beaked

3. Alliteration- the
repetition of a consonant sound in a
line

First the
fingers.

4. Assonance- the
repetition of vowel sound in a line

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"Trouble, trouble, double
rubble!"

5.
Hyperbole- exaggerated statement which one does not take as
true

I climb
Vesuvius and sack his Rome and dance on the Isle of
Capri.

6. Symbolism- the use
of a symbol to represent a fact or idea.

This (the
symbolism) is perhaps the most poignant of the work. The name of the protagonist of the
story is Push. The symbolism of this is that Push is a bully. He is constantly pushing
others around. This can be looked at as a literal idea- he physically pushes people- or
can be looked at in regards to the fact that he feels pushed by forces within himself.
Push states that he is only a "pusher", nothing more given he hates "real
force."