Literary Device(s) of the Week...

1. Adventure novel. A novel where exciting events are more important than character development and sometimes theme.

Examples:
a. H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
b. Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
c. Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

d. Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

2. Allegory. A figurative work in which a surface narrative carries a secondary, symbolic or metaphorical meaning. In The Faerie Queene, for example, Red Cross Knight is a heroic knight in the literal narrative, but also a figure representing Everyman in the Christian journey. Many works contain allegories or are allegorical in part, but not many are entirely allegorical. A good example of a fully allegorical work is Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene A figurative work in which a surface narrative carries a secondary, symbolic or metaphorical meaning. In The Faerie Queene, for example, Red Cross Knight is a heroic knight in the literal narrative, but also a figure representing Everyman in the Christian journey. Many works contain allegories or are allegorical in part, but not many are entirely allegorical.

A good example of a fully allegorical work is Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene.

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