Genre
a collection of fairy tales
Setting and Context
various settings dependent on the stories: "The Forest Dweller" -a tropic forest before civilization
Narrator and Point of View
varying from first person to third person omniscient: "Augustus"-third person omniscient, "Flute Dream"-first person
Tone and Mood
Tone: indifferent, objective
Mood: gloomy, melancholic
Protagonist and Antagonist
Vary from tale to tale: "The Dwarf"-protagonist is Filippo, antagonist is Baldassare
Major Conflict
"Augustus"-Augustus's mother Elizabeth makes a rushed and unfortunate wish that makes Augustus's life miserable
Climax
"Augustus"-Mr. Binsswanger visits Augustus in the moment he is about to poison himself and changes his mother's wish
Foreshadowing
"As you well know, small things in life often cause the greatest catastrophes."-Filippo talking about his small dog Fino
Understatement
N/A
Allusions
"The kitchen of the large main house was directed by the author of Ways to Paradise..."
-Dr. Knoegle's End
Imagery
Imagery at the end of "Shadow Play":
"The tea roses lay scattered on the ground, one of them soaked in the blood of the dead man."
Paradox
"Death was life, and life was death..."
-"Flute Dream"
Parallelism
"No one could equal the manner in which he went through bustling streets, greeting the attentive girls with a contemptuous look.
No one could dance as gracefully and charmingly as he did, drive in a coach as smoothly and elegantly,or carouse as loudly and boastfully in a garden during a summer night."
-"Augustus"
Metonymy and Synecdoche
the gorilla-name for Jonas from "Dr. Knoegle's End"
Personification
"The gnashing current felt itself harnessed by the mills and covered by bridges. It hated each boat that it had to carry, and it smiled as it cradled and rocked the white corpses of drowned people in its waves and long green water plants."
-"Flute Dream"
