Genre
Adventure, Murder mystery, Thriller
Setting and Context
Late nineteenth century
Narrator and Point of View
Watson in the narrator in all stories except for His Last Bow which is narrated with a third person narrative.
Tone and Mood
Tone and Mood are often grave, dark and urging,
Protagonist and Antagonist
Sherlock Holmes is the protagonist in all stories while the antagonist changes with each story.
Major Conflict
Major conflict is in those stories when Holmes has a duty to make the criminal pay, but it is brought to attention that the actions of the criminal are justified due to an injustice done by the murdered person, as in the The Adventure of the Red Circle or The Adventure of the Devil's Foot.
Climax
Major conflict is during the times when Holmes is very near to discovering the criminal and may lose him if does not hurries. Almost, all stories in His Last Bow has this pattern.
Foreshadowing
N/A
Understatement
The experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles is considered as a prank in The Adventure of the Wisteria Lodge. However, it turns out to have a much more sinister end.
Allusions
Multiple allusions to objects essential in a case are made by names which would misread a reader, as The Devil's Foot which is actually a root.
Imagery
A powerful image of a dying Sherlock Holmes is created when Watson goes to visit him as he lies seemingly dying of a fatal disease.
Paradox
Holmes often calls women as mistrusting or lethal, but he also considers them to be the weaker and simple sex.
Parallelism
There is a parallelism between the deaths of the Tregennises. The last sibling dies in the same fashion as his sister.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
The root in the "Adventures of Devil's Foot" is personified as it looks like part-human part-goat foot.
