Three Skeleton Key Literary Devices

Plot surprise and close calls is the most important literary device used in Three Skeleton Key, because the story would not go anywhere if it was all details and mood. Close calls is important because the reader will get anxiety and the feel relieved because it was a close call. In Three Skeleton Key, there is lots of close calls like this one. “At two in the morning, While Itchua was dozing in his room the sheet of metal burst and the rats swarmed on top of him.” He still survived. Or like this one. “The morning of the fourth day, at early dawn, I saw the wooden framework of my window eaten away from the outside sagging inwards.” They put metal on top of it, That was a close call because if he did not notice it he would have died. Another