1. Allusion
Example: “The whole time there was nothing but the sun and the silence, with the low gurgling from the spring and three notes.” (Camus 55).
Usage: The “three notes” are a reference to a musical measure (or tone) that describes the repetitive sound of the “spring”.
2. Ambiguity
Example: “By now the sun was overpowering. It shattered into little pieces on the sand and water.” (Camus 55).
Usage: This quote can have two meanings. One of which is that the sun’s rays were too intense and reflected everywhere. Another meaning this could have is literally, “overpowering” and “shattering into little pieces on the sand”.
3. Assonance
Example: “He asked if I had felt any sadness that day.” (Camus 65).
Usage: The repetitive use of the vowel “a” gives an inquisitive tone/feel to the phrase.
4. Caricature
Example: “That’s all for today Monsieur Antichrist.” (Camus 71).
Usage: This phrase exaggerates Meursault’s lack of association with a specific religion. He does not make any connection between his wrongdoing and god.
5. Consonance
Example: “Everyone on the row of streetcar seats was turned directly toward the judge…” (Camus 87).
Usage: The consonant “t” is used repetitively to show promptness and description in a straightforward nature.
6. Euphemism
Example: “Dis sittin’ in de rulin’ chair is been hard on Jody…” (Hurston 87).
Usage: The “rulin’ chair” represent Jody’s position as mayor of the town. In the context of this phrase, Tea Cake is commenting on his thoughts on Jody’s position in life.
7. Hyperbole
Example: “Sam and Lige and Walter could hear and see more about that mule than the whole county put together.” (Hurston 51).
Usage: This phrase exaggerates Sam, Lige, and Walter’s participation in mule-related conversations.
8. Imagery
Example: “The faint hum of a motor rose up to us in the still air. And way off, we saw a tiny trawler moving, almost imperceptible, across the dazzling sea.” (Camus 49).
Usage: The author uses ones auditory and visual senses to describe the movement of this “trawler”.
9. Juxtaposition
Example: “The office overlooks the sea, and we took a minute to watch the freighters in the harbor, which was ablaze with sunlight…a truck came toward us with its chains rattling and its engine backfiring” (Camus 25).
Usage: The author places the distant moving objects in the sea with the nearer objects that Meursault and his co-worker are forced to notice.
10. Metaphor
Example: “All around me there was still the same glowing countryside flooded with sunlight” (Camus 17) .
Usage: The author uses the “sunlight” that “flooded” the countryside, in order to show the strength of the sunlight on the land.
11. Mood
Example: “All of it - the sun, the smell of leather and horse dung from the hearse, the smell of varnish and incense, and my fatigue after a night without sleep - was making it hard for me…” (Camus 17).
Usage: This creates gives the reader a sense of depression, tiredness, and a slowed pace.
12. Motif
Example: “Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know.” (Camus 3).
Usage: The general concept of time is used by Meursualt throughout the book (and is taken lightly by the protagonist on some parts, (e.g. the section where he serves his term in jail)).
13. Oxymoron
Example: “But I wasn’t…listening anymore. Then he said, “I suppose you’d like to see your mother.” (Camus 5).
Usage: The two sentences in the quote are incongruent with each other because Meursault acknowledges that he literally is not listening, but on the next sentence he does hear the director’s words.
14. Paradox
Example: “I have never seen a soul as hardened as yours.” (Camus 69)
Usage: The magistrate mentions that he has not seen hardened souls, but yet saw many criminals of cruel hearts before him.
15. Parallel Structure
Example: “The sun was the same as it had been the day I’d buried Maman, and like then, my forehead especially was hurting me…It was this burning, which I couldn’t stand anymore, that made me move forward.” (Camus 58-59)
Usage: The author uses two phrases similar to each other in order to show reasoning behind Meursault’s intentions
16. Simile
Example: “He had scented the matter as quickly as any of the rest…” (Hurston 61).
Usage: This phrase compares the people participating in an event with his realization of it.
17. Symbol
Example: “de muck” (Hurston 129)
Usage: This represents some of the toils and interesting events that occurred in Janie and Tea Cakes relationship at that time period.
18. Tone
Example: “Ground so rich that everything went wild. Volunteer cane just taking the place. Dirt roads so rich and black that a half mile of it would have fertilized a Kansas wheat field.” (Hurston 129).
Usage: The author makes the reader have the impression that a pleasant life of farming is possible, or a healthy sense to things.
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