Shadow Kiss Literary Elements

Shadow Kiss Literary Elements

Genre

A vampire novel

Setting and Context

This story takes place at the school, St. Vladimir's Academy, which is located in Montana deep in the dark and dangerous woods.

Narrator and Point of View

The narrator of this story is a first person Rose, who relates about her life in the vampire academy and about the dangers, which lie in wait for every Moroi or Dhampir.

Tone and Mood

According to the atmosphere and intensive plot, the novel has a mystical mood. Occasionally, there is an ironic tone due to dialogues between personages.

Protagonist and Antagonist

The main protagonist is Rose, who tries to protect Lisa. The main antagonist is Victor Dashkov, who wants to take away Lisa’s power. Dhampir are also protagonists, who struggle against Strigoi, who are antagonists.

Major Conflict

The major conflict is an eternal struggle between Dhampir and Strigoi.

Climax

The climax happens when Dimitri turns into Strigoi and Rose leaves the academy in search of Dimitri.

Foreshadowing

The main foreshadowing of this novel is love relationships between Rose and Dimitri. When Rose visits fortune-teller, she predicts that Rose will lose what she values most. This foresight predicts that Rose will lose Dimitri.

Understatement

N/A

Allusions

This novel alludes some geographical places such as Montana, where the vampire academy is located, and Siberia (Russia), where Dimitri was born.

Imagery

Imagery is mostly used in nature depictions

Paradox

As readers can notice, the major paradox of this story is Strigois’ first of Morois’ annihilation. Strigois’ existence is dependent on Moroi, because they drink Morois’ blood, but unfortunately Strigoi are too stupid to understand it.

Parallelism

The parallelism is used, when Rose cannot determine to look for Dimitri. Firstly, she fears to meet him, because he turned into Strigoi, but at the same time she is firmly resolved to leave the school and look for Dimitri.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

Dhampir personifies good, Strigoi personifies evil.

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