Writing Skills In this passage,the author used such stylistic devices as humor and foreshadowing For example: How he talked to people whose names he didn't know;and the ending of the story imply humor. 米 Clues that suggest the man on the train was a criminal and he would rob the narrator are foreshadowing devices. OACHWriting Skills In this passage, the author used such stylistic devices as humor and foreshadowing. For example: How he talked to people whose names he didn’t know; and the ending of the story imply humor. Clues that suggest the man on the train was a criminal and he would rob the narrator are foreshadowing devices