Genre
Philosophy and Ethics.
Setting and Context
The recommendations are based on the tenets of ethics applicable during medieval times.
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person (Omniscient).
Tone and Mood
Counseling tone and medieval mood.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The book offers comprehensive advice on how children can behave honorably. It does not have a specific protagonist or antagonist.
Major Conflict
The book is instructive. It lacks conflict.
Climax
The book does not follow the conventional plot; hence, it is missing a climax.
Foreshadowing
No cases of foreshadowing in the text. Instead, there are flashbacks dating to the medieval epoch.
Understatement
The assertion “that man wanting learning is as the image of death” is an understatement that subverts the beauty and essence of learning.
Allusions
Biblical allusions are prevalent throughout the book.
There is a philosophical allusion (Aristotle’s viewpoints are included in the text).
Imagery
The book incorporates imageries of discipline, courtesy, religiosity, piety, children, God, angels, men, sons, and the Virgin Mary, among others.
Paradox
The argument, "Much sleep engendereth diseases and pain,” is paradoxical because a deficiency of sleep would elicit sickness too.
The saying "For a man's countenance often times declareth his thought," is paradoxical because countenances can be based on pretense and hypocrisy.
Parallelism
In "Office of Chamberlain," four paragraphs commence with the word "then," creating a parallel structure.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
N/A
