The Book of Disquiet Literary Elements

The Book of Disquiet Literary Elements

Genre

Memoir (A lyrical book)

Setting and Context

The book was written in the early 19th century.

Narrator and Point of View

First-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Sorrowful, painful, hopeless, disheartening

Protagonist and Antagonist

The protagonist in the book is Pessoa.

Major Conflict

The major conflict is that the book’s prose quickly devolves into various forms of poetry without prior warning to readers.

Climax

The climax is when Pessoa accepts both his versions of life regardless of their divergence.

Foreshadowing

The earlier dissimilarities in his life foreshadow the fact less of Pessoa's memoir.

Understatement

The prose of Pessoa's memoir is understated. Despite using various types of poetic narratives without warning in the memoir, his work is unpredictable and full of isolated experiences.

Allusions

The book alludes to my passion for writing.

Imagery

The imagery of the author’s fading memory is evident in most sections of the book. The reader sees that the author’s mind is filled with infinite ideas.

Paradox

The main paradox in Pessoa’s memoir is that it is fact less. The reader does not find any meaningful connection in the author’s life.

Parallelism

N/A

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

Poetry is incarnated in the memoir.

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