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What are 10 literary devices in Oliver Twist with examples?

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Allusion:

The Poor Law Amendment Act (Chapter One)

The Bible: Revelation 20:12-13

"If the sea ever gives up its dead—as books say it will." (Chapter 38)

Hyperbole:

Mrs. Mann gave him a thousand embraces, and, what Oliver wanted a great deal more, a piece of bread and butter, less he should seem hungry when he got to the workhouse.

Simile:

"Against the wall were ranged, in regular array, a long row of elm boards cut into the same shape: looking in the dim light, like highshouldered ghosts with their hands in their breeches-pockets."

Onomatopoeia:

I wish some well-fed philosopher, whose meat and drink turn to gall within him; whose blood is ice, whose heart is iron; could have seen Oliver Twist clutching at the dainty viands that the dog had neglected.

Symbols:

Names....Toby Crackit: breaks into houses.

The London Bridge serves as a link between two worlds

Source(s)

Oliver Twist