Read the excerpt from The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and answer the question that follows.
As the door closed, Dorian put the key in his pocket and looked round the room. His eye fell on a large, purple satin c
seventeenth-century Venetian work that his grandfather had found in a convent near Bologna. Yes, that would serve
for the dead. Now it was to hide something that had a corruption of its own, worse than the corruption of death itself-
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its be
shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive.
He shuddered, and for a moment he regretted that he had not told Basil the true reason why he had wished to hide the
Henry's influence, and the still more poisonous influences that came from his own temperament.
How does the use of figurative language develop or enhance the speaker's tone?