Pragmatism and Other Writings Literary Elements

Pragmatism and Other Writings Literary Elements

Genre

Philosophical writings

Setting and Context

Written in the context of practicality

Narrator and Point of View

Third-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Educational and reflective

Protagonist and Antagonist

The central character is John Dewey.

Major Conflict

In the lecture titled ‘What Pragmatism Means,’ there is a conflict between rationalism and illogical religious viewpoints

Climax

The climax comes in the lecture "Pragmatism's Acceptance of Truth."

Foreshadowing

In the lecture, 'Pragmatism and Religion,' irrationality in faith is foreshadowed by the incongruity between expediency and single-mindedness in monistic belief.

Understatement

In the lecture, ‘The Tigers of India,’ the conceptuality and intuitiveness of knowing something are understated.

Allusions

The lectures in the collection allude to philosophical theories on which truth is based.

Imagery

The imagery of the mortal coil is dominant in the lectures.

Paradox

The main paradox is that irrational faith is based on single-mindedness of monistic belief.

Parallelism

There is parallelism between religious beliefs and philosophical concepts about truth.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

N/A

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