What Is Enlightenment?

What Is Enlightenment? Literary Elements

Genre

Philosophy, Essay

Setting and Context

Europe, 1784

Narrator and Point of View

First-person

Tone and Mood

Protagonist and Antagonist

Major Conflict

Climax

Foreshadowing

Understatement

Allusions

Imagery

Paradox

Parallelism

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Personification

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