Daphnis and Chloe Literary Elements

Daphnis and Chloe Literary Elements

Genre

Romance, Fiction.

Setting and Context

Island of Lesbos, Ancient Greek

Narrator and Point of View

The narrator is a third person omniscient.

Tone and Mood

Cheerful, Whimsical, Romantic, Happy.

Protagonist and Antagonist

The protagonist is Daphnis but, the story has more than one antagonist like Droco, who likes Chloe, and the pirates, who kidnapped Daphnis.

Major Conflict

Daphnis and Chloe are both attracted to each other but don't know what is happening to them. Young lovers are unaware of their love-sickness that is troubling them in a great deal.

Climax

The feeling of being kissed was so surreal for Daphnis. He was eager to cure his love-sickness, and eventually, he met a lady Lycaenion who taught the art of love making to Daphnis.

Foreshadowing

Daphnis and Chloe both got abandoned by their parents and got adopted by their foster parents. This incident foreshadows the destined relation between Chloe and Daphnis.

Understatement

Dorco, who likes Chloe, believes that he can win over Chloe's heart just because he has a beard, white skin and, a herd of the ox. Eventually, Daphnis gets successful in wooing Chloe.

Allusions

Daphnis alludes himself to the Greek god Zeus when Dorco mocks that Daphnis' foster mother was a goat.

Imagery

Chloe watches Daphnis as he washes his body by the spring. Chloe thinks he gets handsome after bathing. She finds Daphnis' brown skin and long hair very attractive and feels the desire to touch it.

Paradox

On their nuptial night, Chloe realizes that the act she did with Daphnis to satiate her desires was nothing but shepherd's play.

Parallelism

Daphnis and Chloe's life are parallel to one another. They both belong to rich families. They got adopted by the goat herders when they were infants.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

N/A

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