A vast majority of literary devices subside in a Tale of Two Cities that include: symbolism, satire, and foreshadowing. Strategically placing them throughout the book, Charles Dickens enhances his novel with his knowledge of literary devices. Foreshadowing technique resides in a Tale of Two Cities where the author is attempting to anticipate future events, such as when the non-wealthy peasants would bend down and attempt to drink the spilled wine from the broken casket. Provokingly, Dickens mentions how “The time was to come” when all of the wine spills “on the street stones”(Dickens 33). A threatening statement indeed, signals the upcoming revolution, where the blood of the rich will soon replace the spillage of the wine. Symbolically, Dickens
