Childhood's End

What literary devices are found in A Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke?

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Foreshadowing:

"They never guessed that that day would be here all too soon"

Allusion:

Rip Van Winkle, Kalevala, Stalin, Stanley and Livingstone, Jonah and the Whale

Metonymy:

"'Last month,' pointed out Stormgren, 'a hundred bishops, cardinals, and rabbis signed a joint declaration pledging their support for the Supervisor's policy. The world's religions are against you"

Personification:

"High above, a meteor thrust its shining spear through the dome of the sky"

"Professor Sullivan's enemy was the sea, and it fought him with weapons of cold and darkness, and above all, pressure"

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A Childhood's End