The literary device that Gordimer employs in the excerpt is Imagery.
Imagery is a literary device used to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. Usually it is thought that imagery makes use of particular words that create visual representation of ideas in our minds.
Barbarous,destructive,vandal,offensive, and disparaging
American Revolution and French Revolution I believed
May I ask your age and were u r from an may I also say u look beautiful in ur pic