What literary devices are in Life on the Mississippi by.

Paragraph four of the speech is a large metaphor for an allusion to the United States Declaration of Independence which is later cited directly. In Specific King alludes to the declaration in saying “unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ” Which within itself is a tricolon ascends.

An extended metaphor is often called a “conceit,” and it is thought by some that this is because the writer is showing a certain amount of arrogance in redefining certain terms and making them hard to understand by the audience. Examples of this type of metaphor include: Strolling along with ease. My life is like the Mississippi River.

The female body is a prevalent theme in Atwood’s work, and her poetic background is conspicuous in the explicative imagery of this passage, whose elements of extended metaphor and fluency epitomise Cixous’s literary theory. Offred’s style is therefore distinctly feminine at times, a narrative approach that could be seen to contract Atwood.