Literary Devices
Climax:
Chapter 51-56 The attempt at suicide of Miss Havisham, Orlick's attack, and when Pip's finds out who really gave him the money.
"What is this?" I cried, struggling. "Who is it? Help, help, help!""
"I saw her running at me, shrieking, with a whirl of fire blazing all about her"
"Pip, dear boy, I've made a gentleman on you! It's me wot has done it!"
Falling Action:
Chapter 54 Magwitch's Capture and Death
"His name is Abel Magwitch, otherwise Provis. I apprehend that man, and call upon
him to surrender, and you to assist."
"The appointed punishment for his return to the land that had cast him out, being
Death, and his case being this aggravated case, he must prepare himself to Die."
Foreshadowing:
Chapter 39 Weather foreshadows what's to come. Pip reflects on the dark storm and sky approaching both times when Magwitch visits and when he gets attacked by Orlick.
"It was wretched weather; stormy and wet, stormy and wet; and mud, mud, mud, deep in all the streets. "
"Beyond their dark line there was a ribbon of clear sky, hardly broad enough to hold the red large moon."
Tone:
The tone is Great Expectations changes throughout the whole novel. The book starts out as comical then it goes to dramatic to dark to sympathetic.
Theme:
Ambition and the desire for self-improvement (social, economic, educational, and moral); guilt, criminality, and innocence; maturation and the growth from
childhood to adulthood; the importance of affection, loyalty, and sympathy over social advancement and class superiority; social class; the difficulty of
maintaining superficial moral and social categories in a constantly changing world
Symbols:
Joe: represents conscience, affection, loyalty, and simple good nature
The stopped clocks at Satis House: symbolize Miss Havisham’s attempt to stop time
Gallows, prisons, handcuffs, policemen, lawyers, courts, convicts, chains, files): symbolize the theme of guilt and innocence
Satis House: the upper-class world to which Pip wants to belong to
Metaphor:
"vast heavy veil, an eternity of cloud" Chapter 43
Simile:
"...and it drove still, as if in the East there were an Eternity of cloud and wind" Chapter 43
Personification:
"I got up and went downstairs; every board upon the way, and every crack in every
board, calling after me, “Stop thief!” and “Get up, Mrs. Joe!” " Chapter 3
Imagery
“I ran no farther than the house door, for there I ran head foremost into a
party of soldiers with their muskets; one of whom held out a pair of handcuffs
to me saying, 'Here you are, look sharp, come on!'" Chapter 4
Chapter 51-56 The attempt at suicide of Miss Havisham, Orlick's attack, and when Pip's finds out who really gave him the money.
"What is this?" I cried, struggling. "Who is it? Help, help, help!""
"I saw her running at me, shrieking, with a whirl of fire blazing all about her"
"Pip, dear boy, I've made a gentleman on you! It's me wot has done it!"
Falling Action:
Chapter 54 Magwitch's Capture and Death
"His name is Abel Magwitch, otherwise Provis. I apprehend that man, and call upon
him to surrender, and you to assist."
"The appointed punishment for his return to the land that had cast him out, being
Death, and his case being this aggravated case, he must prepare himself to Die."
Foreshadowing:
Chapter 39 Weather foreshadows what's to come. Pip reflects on the dark storm and sky approaching both times when Magwitch visits and when he gets attacked by Orlick.
"It was wretched weather; stormy and wet, stormy and wet; and mud, mud, mud, deep in all the streets. "
"Beyond their dark line there was a ribbon of clear sky, hardly broad enough to hold the red large moon."
Tone:
The tone is Great Expectations changes throughout the whole novel. The book starts out as comical then it goes to dramatic to dark to sympathetic.
Theme:
Ambition and the desire for self-improvement (social, economic, educational, and moral); guilt, criminality, and innocence; maturation and the growth from
childhood to adulthood; the importance of affection, loyalty, and sympathy over social advancement and class superiority; social class; the difficulty of
maintaining superficial moral and social categories in a constantly changing world
Symbols:
Joe: represents conscience, affection, loyalty, and simple good nature
The stopped clocks at Satis House: symbolize Miss Havisham’s attempt to stop time
Gallows, prisons, handcuffs, policemen, lawyers, courts, convicts, chains, files): symbolize the theme of guilt and innocence
Satis House: the upper-class world to which Pip wants to belong to
Metaphor:
"vast heavy veil, an eternity of cloud" Chapter 43
Simile:
"...and it drove still, as if in the East there were an Eternity of cloud and wind" Chapter 43
Personification:
"I got up and went downstairs; every board upon the way, and every crack in every
board, calling after me, “Stop thief!” and “Get up, Mrs. Joe!” " Chapter 3
Imagery
“I ran no farther than the house door, for there I ran head foremost into a
party of soldiers with their muskets; one of whom held out a pair of handcuffs
to me saying, 'Here you are, look sharp, come on!'" Chapter 4