Genre
Philosophical writings
Setting and Context
Written in the context of practicality
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Educational and reflective
Protagonist and Antagonist
The central character is John Dewey.
Major Conflict
In the lecture titled ‘What Pragmatism Means,’ there is a conflict between rationalism and illogical religious viewpoints
Climax
The climax comes in the lecture "Pragmatism's Acceptance of Truth."
Foreshadowing
In the lecture, 'Pragmatism and Religion,' irrationality in faith is foreshadowed by the incongruity between expediency and single-mindedness in monistic belief.
Understatement
In the lecture, ‘The Tigers of India,’ the conceptuality and intuitiveness of knowing something are understated.
Allusions
The lectures in the collection allude to philosophical theories on which truth is based.
Imagery
The imagery of the mortal coil is dominant in the lectures.
Paradox
The main paradox is that irrational faith is based on single-mindedness of monistic belief.
Parallelism
There is parallelism between religious beliefs and philosophical concepts about truth.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
N/A
