The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. Literary Elements

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. Literary Elements

Genre

Dark comedy

Setting and Context

Real life New York and an imaginary world, in an unspecified time period

Narrator and Point of View

An unnamed, third-person omniscient narrator

Tone and Mood

The tone is confusing; the mood is shocking.

Protagonist and Antagonist

J. Henry Waugh is the protagonist; Rutherford is the antagonist.

Major Conflict

The major conflict of the book occurs when J. Henry Waugh starts to transport himself into his imaginary world.

Climax

The climax of the book is reached when Rutherford is tragically killed by a ball thrown by an opposing player.

Foreshadowing

Henry's personal crisis and spiralling is foreshadowed by the death of Damon Rutherford.

Understatement

The role of fantasy is understated throughout the book.

Allusions

The book alludes to the problems that a lack of reality can bring.

Imagery

The imagery of a chaotic world of baseball is present in the book.

Paradox

The fact that Henry's imaginary world affects him in real-life is an example of paradox in the book.

Parallelism

There is a parallel between the world that Henry creates and Robert Cooper's belief in creationism.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

N/A

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