The Seven Messengers Literary Elements

The Seven Messengers Literary Elements

Genre

Collection of short stories

Setting and Context

Written the context of kingdom exploration

Narrator and Point of View

Third-party narrative

Tone and Mood

The tone is frank, and the mood is sanguine.

Protagonist and Antagonist

The central character is the Prince in ‘the Seven Messengers.’

Major Conflict

There is a conflict between the Prince and the expansiveness of the kingdom. After exploring for years, the Prince realizes that he will never be able to traverse the entire kingdom requested by his father.

Climax

The climax comes when the Prince's travels symbolize life's journey, which is infinite and full of inquisitiveness and mysterious territories.

Foreshadowing

The time taken by the nights to travel to and from to deliver the Prince's message foreshadows the endlessness of his exploration in the kingdom.

Understatement

The king understated the expansiveness of the kingdom when he started his exploration.

Allusions

The story alludes to the journey of life, which is mysterious and endless.

Imagery

To easily identify his seven aids, the Prince uses the imagery of naming using letters A-G. The naming also shows the Prince's sequence when sending his messengers to deliver his message to the capital.

Paradox

The main paradox is that the Prince continues his journey of exploring the kingdom even after realizing that it will never come to an end. After delivering his message, it takes several years for his messenger to return from the capital.

Parallelism

There is parallelism between the Prince’s ambition and the reality of life.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

N/A

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