Wurthering Heights Post #13: Rhetoric Devices Used

There are a few rhetoric devices used in the novel that were hard to find within the novel. Alliteration is used in some of chapters for a minimal effect in the story. In chapter two, Bronte uses alliteration to describe the snow falling: "the first feathery flakes of a snow-shower". The alliteration is used just to enhance the reading experience. Another use of alliteration I saw was in chapter seven: "fingers wonderfully whitened with doing nothing and staying indoors.". This was a small use of alliteration used to enhance reading once again.

Another rhetoric device used in the novel Wurthering Heights by Emily Bronte is personification. I found this part of a sentence in chapter twenty-seven: "every breath from the hills so full of life, that it seemed whoever respired it, though dying, might revive.". Hills cannot breath, so it is an example of personification. This was used to give the hills some personality. I only spotted this example of personification in the novel, although I am sure there were more.

I also saw one more rhetoric device used in the novel. A simile stood out to me in the eighteenth chapter: "after the first six months, she grew like a larch". This was used to tell the readers how she was growing.

Rhetoric devices are very important for an author to use to enhance the readers experience.

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2004. Print.