The Foot Book Literary Elements

The Foot Book Literary Elements

Genre

Children's book

Setting and Context

Written in the context of encouraging young people to be positive in life

Narrator and Point of View

Third-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Informative, optimistic, heartening, hopeful

Protagonist and Antagonist

The central character is the narrator.

Major Conflict

The conflict is that the dog-like cartoons instructed by the narrator are unnamed, but they blindly follow instructions.

Climax

The book's climax is the revelation of its encouragement to the youth to view the world from a positive perspective and take steps towards success and positive thinking.

Foreshadowing

The description of different types of people in the world is presaged by the narrator’s instruction to the foot.

Understatement

Acceptance of human nature is understated in the text. The narrator reveals that despite the world having opposing views, people are one, and they should view each other as a diversified benefit to humanity.

Allusions

The story alludes to the significance of reading, thinking positively and appreciating each other.

Imagery

The description of the feet as wet, dry, small, big, high and low depicts the sense of sight to readers.

Paradox

The entire book is paradoxical because the narrator instructs the dog-like cartoon and responds blindly.

Parallelism

There is parallelism between the opposing view in the world and real-life occurrences.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

The foot is personified when it takes instructions.

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