Literary devices

August Wilson’s play Fences was written during the time of racism which lead to deferred dreams, and deferred hopes. Troy Maxson is the husband to Rose Maxson and they share one child Cory Maxson however, Troy has a son from another woman and a little girl from a recent affair with a woman named Alberta. August Wilson’s use of dramatic irony helps provide the readers with full awareness of Troy Maxson and his intentions without Rose being aware yet. Throughout the story Troy is sought to be the…

From the very beginning, the text indicates its historical context by stating things such as, “In 1820, only a few miles away from what is not the great city of Cincinnati.” This indicates that this took place many years ago in an indefinite area of that time. One of the biggest things that wouldn’t fit in a different time period is the region in which people are “sparsely” spread about. Now a day you really wouldn’t see that as much. Back then though it was pretty common.The story had a lot of…

Right from the beginning of the passage, Brontë utilizes advanced literary techniques by comparing the life of one under the age of eighteen to a “marvellous fiction.” This analogy paints the picture of what the author is trying to accomplish; before we reach adulthood, life is a tale of unexpected turns filled by the grace of fascination because we do not know any better. Young adolescents are still naïve to reality’s setting. Before reaching the age of eighteen, the author claims that our…

Literary Devices of The Scarlet Letter Guilt is a feeling with which many people are familiar. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, a woman named Hester Prynne is condemned by her entire village after committing adultery and having a child. Her punishment is that for the rest of her life, she has no choice but to wear a red letter “A” embroidered into her shirt to ensure that she feels the shame of her infraction every day. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the symbolism of the scarlet letter,…

Literary devices can change major elements in stories if they are altered, resulting in massive changes leading to a different literary device as a product. Some literary devices have little effect on the plot and story if altered accordingly, such as universal broad themes. In the stories of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “Rappaccini’s Daughter”, and “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” there are many differences in literary devices in the adaptations into movies; such as the character portrayal,…

Eugenia Collier, a well known writer used several literary devices such as juxta position, diction, imagery, point of view, and flashback to create the voice of narrator Lizabeth from the short story Marigolds. The point of view the author was trying to express was extremely clear using statements like “Bewilderment of being neither woman or child.”(Collier) to show that the narrator is a teen going through the rough phases that come with coming of age. Quotes of this story, like this one, show…

The perceptive quality of Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Olive Kitteridge, focuses on the ordinary, the regular, and quotidian aspects of life; growing old, the fluctuations of a marriage, the anxious growth of children, and life’s everyday trivialities and little feelings that swell throughout an individual lifespan. Strout achieves this empathetic sense by using long detailed and descriptive sentences, a healthy mix of cumulative and periodic which explore and bluntly state…

By definition catch 22 means a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent condition. In this novel we are introduced to a main character named yossarian, his tired of fighting and tries whatever he can to leave the war but has no option but to stay because it's a direct order from colonel cathcart. In catch 22, Joseph heller uses war to display this paradoxical circular of reasoning within the action of the characters and…

The plot elements in Dark Eyes by William Richter can be demonstrated through many songs. In the exposition the main characters are introduced after a death has occurred. The lyrics “All I know is you held the door/, You'll be mine and I'll be yours/, All I know since yesterday is everything has changed” in the song “Everything has Changed” symbolizes the introduction of the main character Wally and her street family Ella, Tevin, and Jake in New York City who used to consider Sophie as part of…

sonnet. My five literary devices are an onomatopoeia, assonance, rhymes, similes and some imagery. An onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like a sound, and I used the word squall which mean a shriek or a cry and the word squall sounds like a squawk or a cry, so it is an…