The Roar Literary Elements

The Roar Literary Elements

Genre

Science fiction / Suspense

Setting and Context

Set in the year 2050 on Earth in the Northern Hemisphere.

Narrator and Point of View

The novel is told in third-person point of view by an omniscient narrator.

Tone and Mood

Tone: Serious yet Upbeat
Mood: Dramatic and Suspenseful

Protagonist and Antagonist

The protagonists of the novel are Mika and Ellie while the antagonist is Mal Gorman.

Major Conflict

Ellie is being pursued by Mal Gorman and his men as she attempts to return home while Mika is on a personal journey and seeking to find his sister.

Climax

The climax is when the mutant children realize that the animal plague was false and the southern side is flourishing, unlike the north.

Foreshadowing

“Mika was certain Ellie wasn’t dead. The police had told them just after she disappeared that she must have fallen off the walk-way and drowned in the floodwater. But he couldn’t imagine Ellie ‘falling’ off the walkway – she wasn’t that stupid.”

Understatement

Mal Gorman understates the tenacity and resilience of the mutant children that he wants to place under his control.

Allusions

The novel alludes to Edgar Allan Poe's poem, “The Raven” by having a raven-shaped robot named Nevermore.

Imagery

“The clouds rolled low over Barford North, smothering the light of the moon, and there was a ground-hugging Thames Valley mist, which made the hundreds of refugee towers look as if they were hovering off the ground like tombstones in a spooky, giant graveyard.”

Paradox

N/A

Parallelism

Mika and Ellie are telepathic twins with a connection that even allows them to communicate and share similar experiences.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

“…and for a few startled moments, the sun and the sea trembled.”

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