Literary Devices Used In Things Fall Apart

In the novel “Things Fall Apart,” Chinua Achebe writes about how Okonkwo throws a large feast in his mother’s village, Mbanato. Achebe incorporates literary devices such as detail, dialogue, and analogy to reveal the Igbo tradition of eating together as friends and the challenges this traditions experiences which is people not inviting friends to feast together or people having feats as a form of retribution. Okonkwo threw this feast just to gather everyone together. Achebe successfully utilizes these devices to enhance his writing.
Dialogue is a noticeable device used. Okonkwo claimed that “[He] have only called [kinsmen] together because it is good for kinsmen to meet.” Okonkwo is embracing the tradition. Through dialogue, the tradition is