An Essay Upon Projects Literary Elements

An Essay Upon Projects Literary Elements

Genre

Essay

Setting and Context

Set in the 17th century to improve the state of social conditions.

Narrator and Point of View

First-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Educative, optimistic, inspiring and heartening

Protagonist and Antagonist

The protagonist is the Public.

Major Conflict

The main conflict is the negligence by the government to follow up on programs already initiated to empower people.

Climax

The climax comes when the author argues that there is a need to revise and update government programs to ensure that citizens are given opportunities to prosper economically.

Foreshadowing

The government assurance foreshadows the economy's improvement to the merchants that their risks are mitigated.

Understatement

The citizens are understated in the text. For instance, the success of any government project relies on the Public's input.

Allusions

The story alludes to the government's significance and the Public working together to achieve the set goals and objectives.

Imagery

The economic imagery paints a clear picture of the relationship between the government and the economy.

Paradox

The main paradox is that people living in town tend to ignore the significance of knowing each other. The narrator suggests that there should be an instituted program to help people living in towns to know each other.

Parallelism

There is parallelism between the government's intentions and the Public's perception.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

The Public is incarnated.

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