Literary Devices
In the three short stories The Lottery, The Yellow Wallpaper, and A Rose for Emily, the stories take place during different times and have hardly any plot similarities. All three authors of these stories used literary devices; we will look at how they use these literary devices in each store. In the story The Lottery the author uses foreshadowing and The Yellow Wallpaper imagery and in A Rose for Emily metaphors.
In the short story, The Lottery a foreshadowing event takes place very early in the story.
“Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stone and the other boys so following his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest: Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix eventually made a great pile of stones …show more content…
The narrator’s descriptions of the wallpaper become more detailed as her obsession and mental breakdown begins to take over. “It was a nursery first, and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge, for the Windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls” (Yellow Wallpaper 84). This is the first use of imagery that gives the viewer a clear picture of the room that she is living in, and that she is disillusioned in thinking the room is a nursery, gymnasium and playroom. With imagery, the author gives a hint at the room she is actually living in and that it is a padded cell with bars on the windows to keep her from getting out and “the rings and things” are actually chains on the wall for restraints. Another quote from the story is, “I live here on this great immovable bed –it is nailed down, I -believe in follow that pattern about by the hour” (Yellow Wallpaper 88). The bed is a representation of John 's control over her, she does not have a voice, and she is completely submissive to her husband. The author allows the reader to see the start of her obsession with the wallpaper. In the final quote: “At night in any kind of light, and twilight, candlelight, lamplight and worst of all moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern, I mean, and the woman behind it is plain as can be” (Yellow Wallpaper 92). The author …show more content…
Imagery allows the reader to get a visual image of the story, giving the reader an opportunity to create their own visually imagines of the characters and the places where the story take place. Foreshadowing allows the reader to think ahead and by given clues to events that may take place later on story build an excitement within the reader. While on the other hand metaphors allows the readers to look at the story in a broader context, which allows the reader to take in consideration time period of the story, were story takes place and events surrounding the story, in essence a story within a
In the three short stories The Lottery, The Yellow Wallpaper, and A Rose for Emily, the stories take place during different times and have hardly any plot similarities. All three authors of these stories used literary devices; we will look at how they use these literary devices in each store. In the story The Lottery the author uses foreshadowing and The Yellow Wallpaper imagery and in A Rose for Emily metaphors.
In the short story, The Lottery a foreshadowing event takes place very early in the story.
“Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stone and the other boys so following his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest: Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix eventually made a great pile of stones …show more content…
The narrator’s descriptions of the wallpaper become more detailed as her obsession and mental breakdown begins to take over. “It was a nursery first, and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge, for the Windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls” (Yellow Wallpaper 84). This is the first use of imagery that gives the viewer a clear picture of the room that she is living in, and that she is disillusioned in thinking the room is a nursery, gymnasium and playroom. With imagery, the author gives a hint at the room she is actually living in and that it is a padded cell with bars on the windows to keep her from getting out and “the rings and things” are actually chains on the wall for restraints. Another quote from the story is, “I live here on this great immovable bed –it is nailed down, I -believe in follow that pattern about by the hour” (Yellow Wallpaper 88). The bed is a representation of John 's control over her, she does not have a voice, and she is completely submissive to her husband. The author allows the reader to see the start of her obsession with the wallpaper. In the final quote: “At night in any kind of light, and twilight, candlelight, lamplight and worst of all moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern, I mean, and the woman behind it is plain as can be” (Yellow Wallpaper 92). The author …show more content…
Imagery allows the reader to get a visual image of the story, giving the reader an opportunity to create their own visually imagines of the characters and the places where the story take place. Foreshadowing allows the reader to think ahead and by given clues to events that may take place later on story build an excitement within the reader. While on the other hand metaphors allows the readers to look at the story in a broader context, which allows the reader to take in consideration time period of the story, were story takes place and events surrounding the story, in essence a story within a