Charles Dickens Parallelism

Charles Dickens, the author of many books, uses many literary devices in his works. By using literary devices, he uses a technique to produce a special effect in his writing. Some examples of literary devices are flashback, parallelism, foreshadowing, setting, etc. By using literary devices, we, as the reader, get a better understanding and visualization.
One literary device that is presented in this passage is parallelism. Parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter. The word that conveys parallelism is Death. Death is announced 9 times. Thus, this word is emitting the fact that any criminal was sentenced to death; from stealing horses, to opening someone else’s mail will end one’s life. This sentence was the problem solver for every case of crime. Furthermore, so many people were put to death that if one was to put the heads of the criminals before Temple Bar it would block the rays of the sun and minimal light will shine to the floor. The final part of the passage describes a tale of what would happen if the heads of the criminals were to be lined up. This passage shows a bit of atmosphere as well as imagery. This scene paints an image. Atmosphere is a type of feelings that readers get from a narrative based on …show more content…
Foreshadowing is a warning or indication of a future event. Death is restated over and over again. The lives of many people were taken away from these individuals. A few years later, the lives of individuals were taken from them because of the French Revolution. One main reason to the French Revolution was to get rid of the monarchy style of government. The government of France was in a decline and these death penalties could have been part of the reason for the massacres and wars. The bloodshed by the government onto the citizens will be repaid by late 18th