Genre
Fiction
Setting and Context
South of France, early 1960s
Narrator and Point of View
Third person narrator telling the story from James Bond's point of view
Tone and Mood
Dangerous, adventurous, threatening
Protagonist and Antagonist
Bond is the protagonist, SPECTRE and Blofeld the antagonists
Major Conflict
Conflict between Bond and Blofeld, as Bond tries to find out if the international terrorist organization is still operating, and subsequently trying to destroy them
Climax
Discovery that the currency of the UK is about to go through the floor and that Blofeld is behind both this and the plan to use biochemical weapons against England
Foreshadowing
The two henchmen rolling up their pants legato go into the ocean foreshadows the fact that the boat coming into the shore is not an escape boat but part of a pre-planned kidnapping attempt
Understatement
Bond worries he has damaged his car by adding a supercharger to it but this is an understatement because he has completely ruined it and made it impossible for the crankshaft to operate correctly
Allusions
Bond alludes to the Agatha Christie character Miss Marple when he describes the quintessential "little old English lady" at the table with him in Casino Royale
Imagery
The sun was getting lower. Already one could smell the September chill that all that day had lain hidden beneath the heat
The author uses imagery suggesting both smell and visual descriptions to create images of the beach and the changing of the seasons
Paradox
Tracy tells Bond he is a stud sexually and invites him to come to her in the morning as well, but when he does she tells him to get out because sex with him was the worst she had ever had
Parallelism
Tracy makes a parallel between herself and a prostitute by telling Bond that'he paid forty million francs to make love to her
Metonymy and Synecdoche
Bond notices that "the table is becoming wary" at the casino but the table actually means "the players at the table
Personification
Tents "marched prettily down to the tide line" which is giving the tents the ability to move of their own volition
