Genre
Fiction Novel
Setting and Context
Written in the context of supremacy battles
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
The tone is tense, and the mood is intriguing.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The main character is Rand.
Major Conflict
There is a conflict between Rand and Colavaere. When Rand returns to Cairhien, he discovers that Colavaere has capped herself, ruler. Rand is angry and expels her to a farm.
Climax
The climax comes when Queen Morgase and her associates are allowed to flee from Valda by the Seachan army.
Foreshadowing
The escape of Cadsuane is foreshadowed by the arrival of Rand in Illian.
Understatement
The ability of the Sea Folk to ruin Nynaeve and Elayne’s peace negotiations is understated.
Allusions
The story alludes to preeminence encounters among the characters.
Imagery
The scenes in which Rand is crowned as sovereign depict sight imagery.
Paradox
N/A
Parallelism
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
Ter’angreal is used as a metonymy for battle.
Personification
Black Ajah is incarnated as human.
