The Wretched of the Earth
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The Wretched of the Earth Literary Elements

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Genre

Non-fiction

Setting and Context

Algeria in the 1950s

Narrator and Point of View

Frantz Fanon; combination of first person and third person

Tone and Mood

Polemical

Protagonist and Antagonist

Fanon and the colonized

Major Conflict

The colonists vs. the colonized

Climax

Independence

Foreshadowing

Understatement

Allusions

Imagery

Paradox

Colonial force ends up coming back against itself

Parallelism

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Personification

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