The Way to the Rainy Mountain by Pulitzer-award winning author
N. Scott Momaday, is at the same time a good starting point into Kiowa history
while at the same time a unique and fascinating read that combines folklore, poetic
memoire and history. In the book the theft represents the decline because after
the Osages’ theft the Kiowas were abandoned by their sun god.
Alliteration
Assonance
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Personification
The line is an example of a direct quotation. That is when a quotation by someone is unchanged and presented in its entirety. Of course, it's a part of a larger speech, but it's unchanged and can be as such analyzed for various things that the linguists would be searching for.