In literature a very common literary device is symbolism. ... These examples include, Old Misery's house is a symbol for art, beauty, and upper classes moreover, It symbolizes the need to destroy something aesthetic when in the atmosphere of war. ... The third example of symbolism in The Destructors is Trevor himself. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Scarlett O"Hara of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind is far from an admirable literary heroine. ... She is a self-made woman who uses every device at her disposal to her advantage to get what she wants. ... In the meantime, her whole life is spent stringing along all other men, and sometimes women in other ways; Melanie, for example, is there for her always under Scarlett's very false guise of friendship. ...

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In this book I think two of the biggest literary devices are simply metaphors and similies. ... I did not know some of the things happened that did, for example when Kemmerich dies they just gave his boots away and left him. ...

• Word Count: 699
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• Grade Level: High School