The Story "the Necklace" Contains Literary Devices

The story “The Necklace“ contains literary devices such as irony, imagery, and point of view. There is irony when the lady always complains about being poor when she is average. This is shown on page 208 when her husband says “I will give you the money I was going to buy my gun with, so you can buy a dress”. So the lady got what she had wanted. Imagery is shown when they were at the party, and she looks beautiful, with her brand new dress and her jewelry. She has looked the best she has ever looked before, just beautiful. This is shown on page 212-213 when the narrator says “She was the prettiest one there, fashionable, gracious, smiling, and wild with joy. Men turned to look at her, asked who she was, begged to be introduced”. Lastly, point of view is shown when they find out that the necklace that she had lost was fake. This is show on page 215 when Mme. Forestier said “My dear, you should have told me that u have lost the necklace. It was not real”. So Mme. Loisel and her husband lost all of their money because she was greedy and scared. In conclusions the necklace uses several literary devices.

The short story ‘’The Cask of Amontillado” uses several literary devices. They are irony, imagery, and point of view. Irony happens in the story on page 347 when the narrator says to Fortunato “and to your long life”. This is irony because the narrator is going to end up killing him. Imagery is shown on page 347 when the narrator describes the basement and says ‘’all of these pipes are for the wine, this is our wine station’’. Finally, point of view is shown when the narrator does not want to kill Fortunato right away, because he wants to make him suffer. This is shown on page 351 when Fortunato was shaking the chains and when the chains stopped the narrator said ‘’ Fortunato! Fortunato!’’. And there was no answer, because he died. This is point of view because the narroator wanted revenge. Over all “the cak of Amontillado”