This gives the reader a feeling that the narrator was giving his personal opinions of the situation. By doing this, it lead to give a feel that someone is talking to you. The constant switching of third person and first person reinforces or reminds the reader that the story is being told to them, not given to them to read. A literary consonance is a repeated consonant sound within a phrase, verse or sentence. These are found in the middle and end of words in the phrase. Sibilance is when consonants of a phrase, verse or sentence are strained, as a result creating a hissing sound when speaking these words. Both of these literary devices are both used in Gollum’s speech. Gollum generally uses the letter ‘s’ in his speech which creates consonance …show more content…
As well as this, telescope lens are generally large and could possibly describe the size of Gollum’s eyes. Both characters agreed to the deal but Gollum seems to be more willing to keep his part of the agreement than Bilbo. Bilbo was in a more threatening situation as his life was on the line while Gollum’s agreement was a bit more ‘friendly’. All he had to do was to show Bilbo the way out. Evidence that shows this was in the paragraph after the first riddle which says that Gollum challenges Bilbo with an exchange of favours, in which Bilbo agrees. Gollum seems to be more willing to keep his part of his deal as he did after he loses the challenge. The riddles from the Anglo-Saxons and the ones presented in the book have similar wording and has rhymes to it as well. Many of the lines in the riddle may also have a double meaning. Also the answers were not complex but were simple and straightforward such as in an Anglo-Saxon …show more content…
No man's parted easily from the object I describe; if what flies from my stomach strikes him, he pays for its poison with his strength - speedy atonement for his life. I'll serve no master when unstrung, only when I'm cunningly notched. Now guess my name.” The answer was a crossbow. The double meaning in this was “he pays for its poison’ where poison was an arrow in this case, not necessary an actual poison. In the book, one of the riddles was: “The thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountains down.” With time as the answer. Bilbo had suddenly understood what sort of living conditions Gollum had lived since he first was lost here. The book had stated that Bilbo had ‘a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering’ (Page 112, Chapter 5). Bilbo had just experienced what it was like to stay in such a condition only for a short while. He understood how lonely it felt to be alone in the dark, by himself, with no light or hope to save him until he met