In the excerpt from the novel “The Known World” by Edward P. Jones, a character ,Moses, is introduced as a nature lover and a person who pays much attention to detail, and a hard worker which is shown through the author’s impeccable use of literary elements giving the reader an enlightened view of the main character. The first and most obvious literary device Jones uses is the amount of detail used in the piece. For example the sun, Moses pays very close attention to the sun by using it to tell the time and noticing the detail when he calls it a “five-inch-long memory”. (Line 11) This is shown when the author says “All that was left of the sun was a five-inch-long memory of red orange laid out in still waves across the horizon between two