Great Expectations
what are some literary devices in each chapter of great expectations.
Examples and chapter number. I can't find any
Examples and chapter number. I can't find any
Metaphors:
"I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads." (Page 25)
"She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service." (Page 371)
Simile:
"...and it drove still, as if in the East there were an Eternity of cloud and wind" (Chapter 43)
Personification:
"I got up and went downstairs; every board upon the way, and every crack in every board, calling after me, “Stop thief!” and “Get up, Mrs. Joe!” " (Chapter 3)
Imagery
“I ran no farther than the house door, for there I ran head foremost into a party of soldiers with their muskets; one of whom held out a pair of handcuffs to me saying, 'Here you are, look sharp, come on!'" (Chapter 4)
ASYNDETON
"In every single thing I went for you, I went for you, ‘Lord strike blight upon it,” I says, wotever it was I went for, ‘if it ain’t for him!’" (Chapter 19)
Great Expectations