Seveneves Literary Elements

Seveneves Literary Elements

Genre

Science fiction

Setting and Context

The Moon, at an unspecified future date

Narrator and Point of View

An unnamed, third-person omniscient narrator.

Tone and Mood

The tone is futuristic and bizarre; the mood is powerful and tense.

Protagonist and Antagonist

Dinah is the protagonist; Langobard is the antagonist.

Major Conflict

The major conflict of the novel occurs when an unidentified weapon shatters the Moon into exactly seven pieces.

Climax

The climax of the story is reached when the expedition that Sean lead returned to the ISS after it successfully completed its mission objectives.

Foreshadowing

The mass death of the population of Endurance is foreshadowed by the fact that there were limited initial resources.

Understatement

The fine balance between playing God and being a leader is understated throughout the novel.

Allusions

The story alludes to the future impacts of our society if we continue as we are now.

Imagery

The imagery of the mysterious and vast space life is present in the novel.

Paradox

N/A

Parallelism

There is a parallel between Doc's strong beliefs in self-preservation and the survival of the crew members.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

The incoming asteroid acts as a metonym for the dying people onboard the ISS.

Personification

N/A

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