Literary Devices of Short Stories

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Fiction Essay
Short fiction or short is a work of prose fiction shorter than a novel and mainly focuses on a few characters, simple plots, a swift introduction, and an ending. Short fiction employs literary devices on plots and characters to raise the story's value of a certain character or subject. Some literary devices include satire, allusion, simile, symbolism, irony, and flashbacks. Literary devices enable the writer to communicate their message from a unique perspective, emphasizing phrases, arousing emotions and moods, and offering insights, making the storytelling vivid and clear. From “I Stand Here Ironing," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "The Tell-Tale Heart” short stories, here is the reflection on themes, symbolism, and setting, respectively.
The theme is one of the evident literary devices in the “I Stand Here Ironing” short story. Themes are essential, unifying ideas in writings representing the bigger picture that arises as the characters chase their objectives. One of the major themes is the theme of working-class struggle. Poverty and struggles define Emily's life and the narrator's parenting decisions. “We were poor and could not afford for her the soil of easy growth" is a great example of poverty in the story (Olsen). Other evident themes in the short story include guilt, female identity, and responsibility. The use of themes in this short story expounds the story's meaning as the writer can show the role of selfishness mother, which the community anticipates incorporating as a hindrance to successful self-discovery. Instead of assisting women to accomplish self-actualization, motherhood forces women into lives full of suffering and excessive responsibility.
Symbolism is another literary device in the story of ‘hills like white elephants.’ It refers to using definite images to represent other things, su...