City of Glass Literary Elements

City of Glass Literary Elements

Genre

fantasy novel, adventure

Setting and Context

The story is happening in two different worlds. First is our real world and another is invented by the author. The book depicts nowadays of New York city as for the first world, and unreal cities like Idris as for the second.

Narrator and Point of View

Third person narration

Tone and Mood

The book is full of mystics, secrets, fantastic deals and creatures. There are also a lot of deaths, battles. So, the mood in the story is a little dreary, but there is also a romantic line and positive events.

Protagonist and Antagonist

Protagonist is the people of Idris and Valentine is the Antagonist.

Major Conflict

This conflict stretches among all three books of the series and it is a conflict between Idris and Valentine

Climax

The battle with Valentine

Foreshadowing

The story is full of foreshadowing about vampires, demons, other creatures and their world.

Understatement

The theme of death is understated because in the life of such creatures the death happens very often and is treated like usual situation.

Allusions

The story alludes to the Bible and to Catullus poetry

Imagery

See imagery section

Paradox

There are two paradoxes. The first one is that modern time is connected with unreal creations and they live in New York like ordinary people. And the second is that opposite powers and sides of the Idris must unite to win Valentine.

Parallelism

The events of the real and unreal worlds are happening in parallel.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

N/A

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