Library of Souls Literary Elements

Library of Souls Literary Elements

Genre

Adventure, Fantasy

Setting and Context

present time London; Devil's Acre loop inside London, time unknown

Narrator and Point of View

Narrator: Jacob
Point of view: first person

Tone and Mood

Tone: anxious, comic at times
Mood: anxious, nightmarish, dark

Protagonist and Antagonist

Main protagonist: Jacob; Antagonist: Caul

Major Conflict

Jacob, Emma and Addison take a boat ride with Sharon to the Devil's Acre to save their friends and ymbrynes.

Climax

Caul takes one of the souls from Library of Souls and turns into an impossible to defeat giant. His Brother Bentham does the same. The two brothers fight while the ymbrynes work on destroying the loop of Library of Souls.

Foreshadowing

Jacob's ability to control the hollows foreshadows his later role in the Library of Souls. He is the librarian, the only one who can see the souls.

Understatement

The peculiar heroes understate Bentham's role in the creation of wights and hollows. It later turns out that it wasn't merely an accident when he decides to side with his brother.

Allusions

Allusion to Oliver Twist:
"All I knew about Victorian slums I'd learned from the campy musical version of Oliver Twist."
Allusion to Sesame Street:
""You look like Big Bird," I said, following her out of the bathroom, "and I look like Mr. Rogers. This Bentham is a cruel man.""

Imagery

Imagery of diseased river and decaying houses in Devil's Acre truly represent what kind of work is done there and what kind of people live there.

Paradox

"Criminals can't be jailed if they're never caught."-Addison in an argument about the peculiar outlaws.

Parallelism

"But not just any hollow. My hollow."

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Metonymy: peculiars and peculiardom is called that way because of the peculiar powers it's members have.

Personification

"We were chasing Death himself into the pit of Hell."

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