The Reflection of Style Through Literary Devices " as Death Comes for the Arch Bishop reflects a way of life achieved by the author after she had gone through a nadir of despair over her failure in human life" (Stouk 107). ... Such a book known as a bildungsroman, a novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of the main character, is one of the many literary devices used by Cather throughout the novel. By looking at these literary devices, and also the change of religious emphasis the author's style is reflected. In the book Death Comes f...

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Aside from the contents, I was impressed with the level of literary complexity of the Qur'an. The messages from the text are conveyed with various literary structures and devices. ... Brown summarizes that the seeming disorganization of Quranic literary expression is in fact a literary device capable of delivering profound effects as if the intensity of the prophetic message were shattering the vehicle of human language in which it was being communicated. However, from a pure literary stylistic stand point, its scattered mode of composition takes the flow away from the book. ... The lite...

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In the poem, Spenser uses such literary devices as figurative language, personification, and the almighty symbolism among others. ... As you can see, Spenser uses a great deal of literary devices to make his point, clear and somewhat tangled. ... Sure, the use of a few literary devices can throw us all off, but this is ones of those poems that just screams read me, because in order to understand it, it must be read plenty of times in order to get its full effect. Needless to say, very well thought out poem that includes plenty of literary devices and twists to keep most savvy poem readers on t...

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., 2012, p. 144); which thereby explains Cotton's belief that the Puritans took New England from the Devil in these "utmost parts of the earth," and henceforth, the devil has been trying to take them back with the use of every "satanical device" at his disposal (Franklin et al., 2012, p. 328). Mather claimed that the outbreak of witchcraft in Salem was one of these said devices as represented by "an army of devils who have horribly broke into upon the place which is the center... the firstborn of our English settlements" (Franklin et. al., 2012, p. 328). ...

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Meaning is gained from a literary text at both a literal and also a symbolic level. Literary devices are the most direct way in which an author reinforces the themes of a novel. ... In the novel, one of the most significant literary devices used by Winton is symbolism, which plays upon the aesthetic sensibilities harbored by the text's audience and provides insight and deeper understanding to the themes of the novel. ...

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