Cujo
by Stephen King
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Author: Stephen KingEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1982-08-01
ISBN: 0451161351
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: "Cujo" and Its Devices
Summary: 5 Stars
In Stephan King's, "Cujo", King uses many of his characters and sub-plots to show many different ways of three literary devices being used in the story. Foreshadowing was used (...). Dramatic irony was placed throughout the story when the reader knew many details that the characters did not know. Also, suspense is built up throughout the story when they would change to a different setting and different characters while leaving the reader in mid-air. These literary devices are important throughout the entire novel to help keep the reader interested and the novel, entertaining.Tad is only a small, four-year-old child, who believed, deep in his heart, that there was a monster in his closet. While Tad was trying to go to sleep in his bed, thecloset door would open and dreadful, deadly red eyes would appear and talk to Tad. He was told that each night, it would come closer and closer to the bed and one night, jump on him and kill him before he gets the chance to call for help. (...)
While the book changes its plot frequently, suspense builds up throughout the story.
There are many times throughout the story in which the plot changes into a new setting with new characters. When the plot is changed, the occurring events are stopped in mid-air and have left the reader with a cliffhanger. Cliffhangers help build suspense because the reader is unaware of what will happen next in that sequence of events. The reader is forced to read on and wait for those events to come back into play in the novel, while the story continues in other elements. This novel is built up with many different stories put together which also makes it easier for suspense to be built up throughout the story. These literary devices make the novel.
The use of literary terms in a novel is used to make a story worth reading and to keep ther reader interested throughtout the entire novel. Forewshadowing cn be hidden in the novel, but will make sense in the end, the same way that these examples showed. Dramatic irony can keep a reader interested by showing them everything that is going on, and when a character is questioning what is happening, the reader knows and wants to tell the character but is unable to. Suspense can easitly keep a reader wanting more and more until the story is sadly, put to an end. King has used these literary devices extremely well and has made it easy for a reader to come back and read more of the story.
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