Friday, December 16th, 2016- Reading Log #7- Topic Choice #4- Literary Elements and Devices12/16/2016 Setting, foreshadowing, and point of view are the literary elements presented in the book “The Austere Academy”. Each element is being used differently. For setting, the book takes place at Prufrock Preparatory School, the three orphans attend it in this book of the series. Also, it takes place at a dull gray place with buildings shaped like tombstones, or to others, thumbs. Mr. Poes exclaims, “Rather odd architecture,” Mr. Poe commented. “Each building looks like a thumb.” Even Mr. Poe think the rather odd shaped building look like thumbs. The author's purpose for using setting was to better describe how horrible it was living there and to help you understand their feelings of the scenery. For foreshadowing, the V.F.D foreshadows about Count Olaf’s secret that may or may not be revealed later on in the series. The author states, “The children had to find out the secret of V.F.D. and the dreadful thing the Quagmires had discovered. Perhaps it could help them rescue the two triplets. Perhaps it could bring Count Olaf to justice. And perhaps it could somehow make clear the mysterious and deadly way that their lives had become so unfortunate.” V.F.D is like an acronym for something that has foreshadowed Count Olaf’s secret. The author’s purpose for using foreshadowing was to give some mystery and to make you ponder as to what the Quagmire triplets were referring to. For point of view, the story is told in 3rd person. The author’ s purpose for using point of view was to describe their unfortunate lives from his perspective and narrate using the words “he” and “she”. The literary elements are being used to better describe and better explain every horrible and unfortunate event that has happened to the three Baudelaires.
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