Thursday, 8 June 2017

What literary devices are used?

One of the
chief literary devices Hemingway uses in "Hills like White Elephants" is
dialogue. The story consists almost entirely of a dialogue between
a man and woman waiting for a train. We never get inside the minds of the two characters, so we
have to piece together what they are feeling from what they say to each other and, more
importantly, from how each one reacts to what the other says. For example, when Jig
says

Everything tastes of licorice. Especially all the
things you've waited so long for, like absinthe.

The
reader doesn't know that she is speaking sarcastically until the man responds:


Oh, cut it out.

The dialogue
communicates the tension and anger the couple is experiencing.

Another
literary device Hemingway employs is repetition . The characters
are...

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