Literary devices

death’s spy, and he tells them that they will find death under a tree. Finding this tree, they stumble upon finding lots of money, and in the end, they had killed each other over it. There are literary elements/devices used to make the story more interesting. Geoffrey Chaucer successfully uses literary elements/devices in this story which are personification, irony, and foreshadowing. Using personification, death is being personified by the people in the story. In lines 72-76, the tavern-knave…

Edgar Allan Poe: The Master of Literary Devices Elliot took each step with precaution, as a weird irking feeling started to set into the bottom of his stomach. A long, crooked staircase was all he managed to see in the darkness of the cellar. Why he decided to go there, no clue. Elliot continued and soon enough, a shadow lurked over him like a thief in the night. In an instant, the boy mysteriously vanished. Whether it be Sherlock Holmes or Poe himself the mystery genre has always lured in its…

Trying to explain literary devices in a winter song is hard but not impossible. In the song Winter Wonderland the author Richard Smith wanted to create a song that meant joy and having fun outside with a loved one by putting in some literary devices. In Winter Wonderland there are 3 or more literary devices used which would be senses, imagery, and rhyming. He used imagery so the reader could connect to what is happening throughout the song. The first example of imagery he used was “Sleigh…

“The Lottery” was published in 1948, short story, and was written by Shirley Jackson. In this story Jackson uses many examples of literary devices, but the five main examples of literary devices, but the five main devices are style, setting, theme, characterization, and plot. Jackson uses many details and descriptive words to make those five literary devices stand out, and make it easy for the reader to pick up on them. If Jackson did not used enough detail in one of these five the whole story…

The Fault In Their Friendship “For you a thousand times over!” (Ch. 7). Khaled Hosseini uses literary elements to illustrate a number of themes. In the novel The Kite Runner, setting illustrates the theme friendship means being loyal, character illustrates the way people treat their friends shows if they are good people, and mood illustrates the way people treat the their friends shows if they are good people. Hosseini uses setting to compare Afghanistan and the United States while developing…

the end. However, unlike traditional English poems, Sonnet 11 does not contain a turn. In essence, Sonnet 11’s expressive purpose is to portray the conditions love must endure to last through the use of parallel thought structures and other various devices. Within the first line of the poem, the poet creates a relationship between flame, wood, and love. For example, the poet states “for steadfast flame wood must be seasoned.” In other words, a steadfast flame cannot occur if the wood is not…

In the “Skating Party” by Merna Summers, Merna indirectly teaches us a lesson of love and life. People have believed that Nathan had lost his “beloved fiancée” but in his mind he lost the one he truly loved, Delia Sykes, and he kept this a secret from everyone. During the skating party Nathan let the 2 girls go skating off, not realizing that they were skating off onto thin ice. A little bit afterwards “[You could hear] them calling for help” (8) so “A group of men skated out to rescue them” (3)…

1.) This poem by Emily Dickinson describes the scene and atmosphere when someone is dying. The speaker’s final moments of life are portrayed as somber and quiet, so quiet that the speaker can evidently hear a “fly buzz,” which is a type of onomatopoeia and helps to emphasize the silence of the room. Another figurative devise that is employed to further establish the overwhelming silence is the use of a simile when comparing the stillness between the “heaves of storm” which would be relatively…

thrill and scare the reader with just words alone. By using specific literary techniques such as vivid imagery, personification, similes, and metaphors, Buchan succeeds in telling a thrilling horror story that allows the readers to experience the same emotions as the narrator. In literature, imagery is a technique employed by the author to help the reader create “mental images” through the words and phrases the author uses (Literary Terms). In The Watcher by the Threshold, vivid imagery is…

environment. In the passage from Ann Petry's The Street, Lutie Johnson's shows how she struggled and adapted with being in an urban environment. Petry uses many literary devices to show Johnson's determination. Through the usage of heavy imagery and personification, Petry shows that Johnson is capable of adapting. One of the most prevalent literary device used was personification. In the passage, the main antagonist isn't a person like in most stories, but rather a force of nature, the wind. The…