Essays on Literary Devices

Given the circumstances, Bisclavret’s wife was treated harshly. Her literal meaning led her to believe that her husband was cheating on her with another woman. While Bisclavret’s wife loved him, she was concerned that he was not leading a faithful life. Perhaps his communication system was ineffective because it allowed…

Many people deal through life’s difficulties without pausing to consider the environment that nature has created for their survival. Huxley’s novel is about a world in which impulses and pleasure dominate people who have been taught to feel that they have life independence while, in fact, they are enslaved by…

“Dulce et decorum est” is a poem by Wilfred Owen, written during World War I and published posthumously in 1920. The phrase comes from Horace’s Ode 3.2, which means “sweet and fitting” and ends with the words, “pro patria morum.” Wilfred Owen The poem ‘Dulce et decorum est pro patria…

Great authors employ literary instruments and methods in novel ways to illustrate their knowledge of the craft of fiction. Earnest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea is notable in the history of American literature as a novel that mastered the use of literary devices and techniques, as well…

The short story “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin is a literary analysis of racism in the African American community. The work shows the gradual shedding of prejudice and its themes of music and religion. However, there are a few points that need to be explored to fully appreciate the story….

In An Analysis of My Antonia by Janet Cardiff, the protagonist Antonia gives birth to a child that she does not consider to be legitimate. However, she does not hide this fact from the society and does not fulfill the expectations of her peers. Instead, she displays her illegitimate child…

In this article, I would argue the use of storytelling approaches in the literature and compare the tools used in two literary texts: Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. The importance of the methods cannot be overstated. They are primarily the cornerstone of a story; without narrative,…

With a little help from other literary devices, imagery is one of the most important literary devices in poetry, and it is the key device used in Daniel Elder’s poem “Ballade To The Moon” and Elizabeth Frye’s poem “Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep.” I’ll be contrasting imagery…

Krakauer portrays Chris McCandless in his book into the wild as a reckless adventurer with risk-taking skills. He is portrayed as a very intriguing character who is driven to live a life that is not typical but exceptional. It’s difficult to imagine Christopher McCandless was an actual person who walked…

When Charlotte Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the system of American society in the nineteenth century saw men (White men) ruling all facets of life, including the livelihoods of their wives. Gilman’s short story can be seen as an attempt to liberate women of the time from the constraints of…

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift is a satirized literary work that delves into the deplorable circumstances in Ireland in the early eighteenth century. The publishing of the novel coincided with the arrival of the New World and the slave trade, in which people were commodified into commodities. Furthermore, Ireland,…

When we look back in time, we can’t help but see the patterns that color and characterize specific eras. For example, World War II defined the 1940s, also known as the “Fighting Forties.” The 1960s were marked by a challenge to and uprising against the status quo. Sure, this is…