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Phantom Tollbooth Literary Devices

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Though a children label book, The Phantom Tollbooth is a book that anyone can enjoy. Told in a third person point of view, the reader follows Milo, a child who finds a mysterious tollbooth one day in his house and out of curiosity puts it together and decides to go in and it takes him to a world that is unknown to him and where he is the person selected to rescue the two princesses Rhyme and Reason, to reunite the two kingdoms of Dictionopolis and Digitopolis. During this journey Milo learns things about himself, the variety of characters in the world, and also the lessons that he soon to start to learn. In Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster uses homophonic paronomasia, juxtaposition, and symbolism to achieve essence to the story, a more original …show more content…

That means Juxtaposition is used, which is the contrast of two or more ideas are present to bring up compare and/or contrast ideas (literary device). The first encounter with this term is when Milo meets both the Spelling Bee and the Humbug. The Spelling Bee is all about education during his parts of the book. The Spelling Bee talks to Milo about how he “... never amount to anything without an education…”, so you see that the Spelling Bee is all about having a valuable education (Juster 52, 53). Later on in the same chapter, the Humbug introduces ends up showing up and expressing his feelings about having an education. He goes on by saying, “ You can never catch up-so why bother.” this shows that the Humbug is not about having an education, because he thinks it is pointless and that you will never be completely educated (Juster 54). The use of juxtaposition brings more depth to the story at hand and Juster uses this strategy throughout the entire book. Another example is later when Milo is trying to rescue the princesses and he runs into Dr. Discord and Dynne who make “... unpleasant sounds we use so much of today” (Juster 138). Later on when Milo reaches Silent Valley, a place where there is no sounds, he meets the Soundkeeper. The Soundkeeper rid the whole valley of sound because she did not like sounds that Discord and Dynne were producing. Juster uses Juxtaposition to expand Milo experiences till the

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