Literary Devices Used In A White Heron

A White Heron Essay Sylvia, the wanderer and adventure seeking young girl who goes on an adventure to find a white heron that was spoken about. Jewett dramatizes Sylvia’s adventure by the use of natural imagery, third person point of view, and a simile. The author does these things to make the story flow better and make it more dramatic. The Author does this to connect the story and show that Sylvia was one with nature. Each literary device helps support what is going on in the story. The author uses natural imagery to show the reader what the landscape looks like and describe its detail. “First she must mount the white oak tree that grew alongside, where she was almost lost among the dark branches and the green leaves heavy and wet with dew; a bird fluttered off its nest, and a red squirrel ran to and fro, and scolded pettishly and the harmless housebreaker ( Jewett 28-31)”.This shows natural imagery because it describes how Sylvia saw the world and describes the detail of what was going on. It describes the scene exactly enough for the reader to picture it in their head. All of this is happening with Sylvia is …show more content…
When it says,“The way was harder than she thought; she must reach out far and hold fast, the sharp dry twigs caught and held her and scratched her like angry talons, the pitch made her thin little fingers clumsy and stiff as she went round and round the tree’s great stem, higher and higher upward (Jewett 36-39)”, it shows how third person helps tell what is actually happening and not what Sylvia is thinking. Third person point of View in this situation exhibits how she was in panic trying to get the branches of the tree and that she was in pain. Third person help show the reader that she is struggling to reach the top it was being scratched all over by the talents that we're all over the