Prompt: Frequently in novels, the narrator’s choice of diction, detail, and imagery help clarify the plot. Select a novel that uses one, two, or three of these literary devices to help the reader’s understanding. Then, write an essay analyzing how a narrator’s choices of literary elements adds to the understanding of a novel. Thesis: In Pride and Prejudice, the narrator uses diction, specific details, and imagery in order to give the reader a better understanding of the storyline and the moods of the characters in the novel.
The choice of diction throughout the novel Pride and Prejudice helps the reader to understand the plot of the story. Diction in this novel is used to create a depressing tone. “Hope was over, entirely over.” (129)
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Next, Austen uses devices like simile forms, “if you lament ver him much longer, my heart will be as light as a feather.”(211) This literary device contributes to the tone, helping the reader understand more about Elizabeth and how deeply she cares for her sisters and her indifference at the time, toward Mr. Darcy. Lastly, the quote ''Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners'(49) and ''his sisters were fine women, with an air of decided fashion.''(50) Neither of these explanations tells us how tall Mr. Bingley what hair color his sisters have. Yet when each of us thinks of a 'good-looking and gentlemanlike' person, we picture someone who is good-looking to us, someone who dresses like a gentleman. To each person this image will probably be slightly different, which is what makes Austen’s use of imagery abstract. Thus, saying that Jane Austen’s use of imagery is well integrated into Pride and Prejudice, helping to develop the plot of the story to translate the story to the