The Twits Literary Elements

The Twits Literary Elements

Genre

Children's Fiction

Setting and Context

The home of Mr and Mrs Twit

Narrator and Point of View

Third person narrator from various points of view as the story progresses.

Tone and Mood

Spiteful, unkind, scheming.

Protagonist and Antagonist

The Twits are both protagonist and antagonist in their relationship with each other.

Major Conflict

There is conflict between the Twits and the Muggle Wumps, and between the Twits and the birds whom they are trying to capture for bid pie.

Climax

The Twits are glued to the floor by their heads and this gives the Muggle Wumps the opportunity to escape.

Foreshadowing

The birds outwitting the Twits, when they find out where the gluey branches are foreshadows the Twits' purchase of shotguns that they will use to shoot the birds.

Understatement

The comedic slant of the writing serves to understate what horrible things the Twits actually do to teach other.

Allusions

No specific examples.

Imagery

The author creates a lot of pictures for the reader of the countryside, for example, the Twits' propensity for gluing the birds to the trees creates amusing imagery for the reader that is more like Dahl's "Revolting Rhymes" book

Paradox

The birds want to save themselves by avoiding the glue on the trees but they annoy Mr Twit so much that he fetches his shotgun, which is more dangerous to them th.

Parallelism

There is a parallel between, Mr and Mrs Twit and how their pranks escalate each time they have a trick played on them themselves.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

The Muggle Wumps is the phrase used to describe each of them individually.

Personification

No specific personification; however, there is a great deal of anthropomorphism.

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