Literary devices are used to convey the message of a writer to the reader. In the book The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, O'Brien uses many different devices to elaborate on the emotions that come with war. He uses some literary devices more than others to express the emotions in a superior way, such as flashbacks, repetition, and hyperbolas. In this book, Tim O’Brien is writing based on how his memories return to him. The entirety of the fictional story was flashbacks from twenty years earlier. While reading this book, the reader can tell from the order of the Chapters how his flashbacks are occurring to him: they are out-of-order and often spark a story that follows behind it – some even are repeated. The out-of-order flashbacks seem