Literary Devices

After my parents read the copy of Mabbul and the Emerald Planet which I sent them.  My mom, a retired English teacher, asked if the use of all the literary devices were intentional. “Well”, I answered, “I may not know all the names of all the devices, I doubt that I went out of my way to incorporate any device, I just wrote and this was the way I told the story. 

Now that the book is written, we went back to evaluate the book as if we were in some English lit class.   Keep in mind that most things being dissected do not survive the dissection.

Literary Devices refer to the typical structures used by writers in their works to convey his or her messages in a simple manner to the readers.  When employed properly, the different literary devices help readers to appreciate, interpret and analyze a literary work.

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