Such is Life Literary Elements

Such is Life Literary Elements

Genre

Australian fiction

Setting and Context

Victoria and New South Wales, in Australia during the 1880's.

Narrator and Point of View

An unnamed, third-person omniscient narrator.

Tone and Mood

The tone is hopeful; the mood is optimistic.

Protagonist and Antagonist

Ned is the protagonist; the modern world is the antagonist.

Major Conflict

The climax of the story is reached when Ned travels to the countryside and begins his journey in visiting all of the rural towns and the people that live there.

Climax

The climax of the story is reached when Tom is considered as a dog for one of the village traditions, which confuses Ned.

Foreshadowing

The use of bad language is foreshadowed by the lack of rules that govern the villagers.

Understatement

The rife rates of crime are understated throughout the novel.

Allusions

The story alludes to the life of those that dwell outside of civil life.

Imagery

The imagery of rolling country fields is present in the novel.

Paradox

N/A

Parallelism

There is a parallel between the freedom that the travellers have and the amount of murder that they commit.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

The bodily mutilation of animals is personified through the bullock drivers.

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