How are the rhetorical devices in the quote appropriate for the audiences will will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope?

they were all headed for jail, on a score of charges each, with no family nor friends to bail them out. They were very depressed until, God bless our mercy, here comes Printers Prize $1 million relese. They carefully divided the $1 million, purchased new autos for all, went to a fine dinery and carried hope so heavy it drooped their shoulders.