The Great Gatsby

The first sentence of the second paragraph is characterized by?

Base the question on the first sentence of paragraph 2 from chapter 3: "Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves."

The first sentence of the second paragraph is characterized by...

parallel structure? chiasmus? hyperbole? metonymy? or paradox?

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I believe it is a chiasmus.