Exploring Literary Devices in "Wuthering Heights"

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Literary device in "1801—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with."

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Foreshadowing

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Literary device in "solitary neighbour"?

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Oxymoron

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Tone of "shall be troubled with":

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Foreboding

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Literary device in 'a series of curses directed against every object he touched'

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Hyperbole

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"It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff; he shall never know how I love him; not because he’s handsome, but because he’s more myself than I am."

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Irony

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Heathcliff described as an "unreclaimed creature, without refinement; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone."

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Imagery

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"Yes, and it worries me! Edgar Linton asked me to marry him, and I’ve answered. Before I tell you if I consented or denied, you tell me what it should have been."

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Point of View

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"It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn."

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Personification

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Intense horror: a hand clings, a voice sobs, 'let me in.' Who? 'Catherine Linton, lost on the moor.'

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Foreshadowing

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We all kept as mute as mice for half an hour, until Joseph said he must rouse the master for prayers and bed.

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Simile