Spoon River Anthology Literary Elements

"A.D. Blood" is written from the perspective of a first-person subjective point of view.

The poem "Aaron Hatfield" is written in an iambic pentameter form.

The hills are used in the poem "America" as a metaphor used to represent the wars waged on its territories.

We have alliteration in the poem "America" in the line "Leave thou the path of the beasts. Return thou again to the hills,".

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"A.D. Blood" is a meditative poem.

The action in the poem "America" has no fixed setting because it is a meditative poem.

The tone used in "Aaron Hatfield" is an accusatory one.

The protagonist in "Alfred Moir" is the narrator and the antagonist is his own wretched soul.

The major conflict in "America" is between reality and illusion.

"Ace Shaw" reaches its climax when the narrator reached the conclusion that life has no real meaning.

At the beginning of the poem "Alfred Moir" the narrator describes his soul as being corrupted. This foreshadows the later instance in which the narrator will describe the sins of which he was guilty of.

We find an understatement in the poem "America". At the beginning of the poem, the narrator identifies the country as being almost perfect, a place where everyone should want to live and work. Later in the poem, these ideas change and America becomes filled with disappointments and pain.

The main allusion in the poem "Aaron Hatfield" is the idea that a person can find true happiness and true consolation only in God and through religion.

Money is used in the poem "Ace Shaw" as a general term to make reference to humanity and the actions a person is willing to do in order to have a happy and carefree life.

We have a personification in the poem "Aaron Hatfield" in the line "Or at the intolerable hour of noon".

The line "Nightly make my grave their unholy pillow?" from the poem "A.D. Blood contains a hyperbole.

The line "But in those moments of tragic silence," in the poem "Aaron Hatfield" contains an onomatopoeia.