To show how the woman was slowly falling into psychosis after being forced to recover from the birth of her child in the yellow room.
1 is alliteration.
2 is onomatopoeia.
3 is personification.
Roosevelt was pointing out that all that these"muckrakers" as he dubbed them only reported on the bad and none of the good. He said this because as reporters they were focusing more on getting people to read their articles than telling the truth. this led to many factual errors in their writing. kind of like Reeta Skeeter.
