Effective Use Of Literary Devices In The Big Red Frog

The Big Red Frog is a storybook about the life of a red frog. The frog is lonely and just wants a friend. He then finds a friend, in which they play all night long. Eventually they had to leave, so the next day the Big Red Frog was looking for his friend. His friend didn’t show up the entire day, and he looked everywhere until nighttime. Then at the end of the book their is a plot twist, because the Big Red Frog’s friend was actually killed for frog meat. My storybook had seven main literary devices, the first of this being anaphora. I chose to use this literary device because it fitted the meaning I wanted to convey the best. The repetition of “The Big Red Frog”, found on page one, made the issue of not being lonely more serious. Page two then helps to establish this further, because uses the same repetition from page one, but gives the conflict of the story. The conflict of the story was that the Big Red Frog was lonely, and through the first two pages it can be clearly understood. On the fourth page of my storybook, I used my second literary device, serendipity. This page also used inference as well, but it was not an intentional device that I used. Serendipity was used in the book to make something

I used the phrase, “felt like it was an eternity” to exaggerate the frogs problem. He had only been away from his friend for less than a day, since they were playing the night before. I feel like this gives the Big Red Frog more emotion in the story, because it makes him feel less serious. The story wouldn’t be as interesting if I had said, “ He hadn’t seen his friend since last night, and he’s trying to find him.” Aside from this, page eight also had a literary device, which was onomatopoeia. This was used to emphasize the frog’s emotion as well. I stated that the frog was croaking, but it can also be inferred that he wasn’t happy when croaking based on the