English & Literature
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
Oliver Twist