TWIST

-Tone/Mood
-Word Choice ((metaphors, similes, connotation, personification))
-Imagery ((senses, especially sound))
-Style ((punctuation, syntax, etc))
-Theme

"There was the experience of feeling death without dying that came from watching a chicken leap about blindly after its neck had been snapped by a quick twist of my father's wrist"

T- monotonous, but the mood is dark from the subject matter
W- He seems to define Death and Dying really differently, instead of a verb form of a noun and the noun itself like its commonly seen
I- "quick twist of my fathers wrist" and "leap about blindly" are strong action based phrases to put the images of a chicken's wrung head and the following hysteria
S- One sentence, sort of long, with no breaks or commas
T- Dying causes immense pain, but also death seems to be numbed
((Richard's mother is Dying but not dead and is hurting but not numb, the chicken was not dying until it was Dead))