What Are The Literary Devices In Pedro

Moving on, common literary devices never failed to convey the range of emotions Paul felt towards his topic. In his precarious state as a young medical student, a simple use of personification embodied the fear that struck him like a wave through the quote, “But the fear still lurked--I could feel its fluttering--that through accident or expectation, I’d be called on to deliver a child by myself, and fail.” (55) On the contrary, this quote rests more closely to the side of life and its hardships in his overall topic. Another quote has a similar effect with the metaphor, “…the image of the twins being extracted from the uterus interrupted my sleep. Like a premature lung, I felt unready for the responsibility of sustaining life.” (61) Fear wasn’t all that he felt when standing in front of death, sadness almost swept him away at times such as, “I was in the hospital: trapped in an endless jungle summer, wet with sweat, the rain of tears of the families of the dying pouring down,” (78).