The Clash of Civilizations

The Clash of Civilizations Literary Elements

Genre

Non-Fiction

Setting and Context

Global, 1990s

Narrator and Point of View

Third person

Tone and Mood

Analytical

Protagonist and Antagonist

Major Conflict

The clash between "the West" and "the rest"

Climax

Foreshadowing

Understatement

Allusions

Imagery

Paradox

Parallelism

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Personification