Three faces have resolved into place above summer-weight sportcoats and half-Windsors across a polished pine conference table shiny with the spidered light of an Arizona noon. These are three Deans—of Admissions, Academic Affairs, Athletic Affairs. I do not know which face belongs to whom.

The sentence repeats the initial “f” sound in “faces,” “have,” “half-Windsors,” and “conference,” creating alliteration. Allusion refers to an indirect reference, irony involves a contrast between expectation and reality, and metaphor describes one thing as another.

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