In the excerpt from Nicholson Baker's writing, The Mezzanine, Nicholson Baker portrays a very straightforward and scholarly type of diction. At the same time, he uses a figurative type of language when describing objects such as the lobby. Baker said the lobby was filled with "towering volumes of marble and glass. Baker refers to the escalator as the "escalator of daylight" which conveys a poetic yet highly elevated sound.
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