The Little White Bird Literary Elements

The Little White Bird Literary Elements

Genre

Fantasy novel

Setting and Context

The novel is written in the context of family life

Narrator and Point of View

Third-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Aggressive, optimistic, perturbing

Protagonist and Antagonist

The protagonist is the narrator.

Major Conflict

The conflict is that the narrator is a lonely character who his family and friends isolate.

Climax

The climax is when David and the narrator join up to form a substitute family.

Foreshadowing

The physical appearance of David in the narrator's life foreshadowed his happy ending despite leaving him in isolation in his past life.

Understatement

Parenting is understated. The narrator wonders why his family neglects him, and he admires David's family. David's parents are hardworking, caring and loving.

Allusions

The story alludes to the impact of parental neglect.

Imagery

The images of Kensington Gardens depict sight imagery because they enable readers to see the beauty and extravagance of the Royal gardens.

Paradox

David’s jealousy after realizing that his mother has another child is satirical. David fails to comprehend that his family loves him and the new baby in equal measures. On the contrary, David assumes that the new child has replaced him.

Parallelism

After realizing she has a new baby, David's feelings towards his mother parallel the narrator's feelings towards his parents.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Birds in the Kensington gardens are a metonym for beauty, adoration and love.

Personification

The birds in Kensington Gardens are personified as babies.

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