Many authors use a variety of richly developed literary techniques to evoke emotion, and connect with the audience. ... A literary device used by many authors is symbolism or, more distinctly, personification. ... As with many other literary techniques, there are several examples of personification in "There Will Come Soft Rains" that help to make the text feel more animated and lively, like many aspects of our everyday lives. ... But, of course, a house cannot be in fear; however, Bradbury uses the device to make it is easier for the reader to relate to something that is human or ...

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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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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. ...

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