Essays on Literary Devices

A captivating novel is one that uses multiple literary devices to grip the reader’s attention while reading. Susin Nielsen, the author of We Are All Made of Molecules uses a large selection of figurative language. She uses a variety of foreshadowing, similes, and imagery to…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a science-fiction parody novel by Douglas Adams. It can be classified as an absurdist story where the protagonist searches a meaning to life. Throughout this character’s journey, he’s faced with multiple obstacles which are totally absurd events that…

Certain pivotal events occur that permanently transform a person’s perspective in life. These occurrences foster greatness and harbor the potential to cause continual change within people. Malcolm X, a renowned civil rights activist, experienced a momentous episode in his life which ignited his passion to…

Nils Christie proposes the concept of “Conflicts as Property” in his article of the same name, where he criticizes the theft of conflict from the involved parties by their professional representatives and the legal system. Christie claims that henceforth conflict becomes the property of others…

Poetry is the act of peace and unity in the world. The human condition explores the qualities of being a human and what we can do to our lives to make it more peaceful. Today I will be analysing one of the texts based on…

The Fables that were inserted in the epic, along with ballads and legends and another form of Folk-Tales, in fact, constituted the beliefs, customs and traditions of the common people. Every popular similes and analogy played an important role in the development of fables. During…

In literature, there are many different elements that allow an author to shape the reading experience so that they can appeal to the reader more. These elements consist of allegory, character, and figurative language. There is also imagery, meter, plot, point of view, rhythm, setting,…

Irony as a literary device has been used in order to achieve a sense of reality within works of fiction. It can be seen a sort of contrast between the surface meaning of something that is said or done and the actual, underlying meaning of…

Explore how the words of The Cockroach vividly convey the situation of Kevin Halligan. Support your answer with details from the poem. Kevin Halligan uses intricate sequencing of words and language devices to make his situation realistic and meaningful in ‘The Cockroach’. The main idea…

In the novel The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Cecily Cardew is a subject of development through the usage of antithesis and satirical juxtaposition in mirroring of another character, Gwendolen. If Gwendolen is a product of London’s excessive society, Cecily is its antithesis….

King of shadows is a book by Susan cooper set in a cross between 1999 and 1599 it is the story of a boy Nathan field who is playing puck in a midsummer night’s dream in the newly opened globe theatre but then is suddenly…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” demonstrates the absurdity of trying to make an impeccable being, and thusly, meddling with the domain of the awesome. Hawthorne passes on this message through the tale of the researcher Aylmer and his lovely spouse, Georgiana, who has a…

The huge allusion in the book has to be freedom. Freedom is something that Jim obviously wants and Huck, a white boy who is not raised correctly, wants to get away from his drunken father and all of the proper manners and speaking properly like…

Jonathan Edwards is a great author that uses literary devices that has a majorly good effect on how we read and comprehend books today, in this story I will show you the literary devices that he uses. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”…

Literary Devices in Oedipus Rex Oedipus Rex is a remarkable play by Sophocles, centering around Oedipus’ purpose of finding the cause of the curse that is tyrannizing Thebes, the city where Oedipus is king. The play strongly demonstrates the point of how one’s pride could…