“The Story Of An Hour” uses Literary Devices. Literary Devices are specific language techniques which writers use to create text that is dear, interesting, and memorably. The literary devices in “The Story Of An Hour” are Irony, Symbolism, Imagery, and Allegory. Irony means the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically, for humorous or emphatic effect. Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. Symbolism is a literary element used in literary work. Imagery visually descriptive or figurative language especially in a literary work. Allegory is a story or poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. Irony in “The Story Of An Hour” begins to grow after Mrs.Mallard goes upstairs, and after thinking about the fact that she is now …show more content…
A person with a weak heart, after all would not deal well with such news. When she dies at the end of the story, the diagnosis of “Heart Disease” seems appropriate because the shock of seeing Brently was surely enough to kill her. But the doctors said she’d died of overwhelming joy is ironic because it had been the loss of joy that had been the loss of joy that had actually killed her. Indeed, Lousse seems to have died of a broken heart caused by the sudden loss of her much-loved Independence. Imagery in “The Story Of An Hour” The Imagery begins as “He was drinking in a very elixir of life through the open window her fancy was running riot along those days, and summer days, and all sort of days that would be her own. She Breathed… that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long……. There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of