Literary devices Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Post-Modern literatures all include literary devices. The imagery may vary in intensity. The Victorian sweetness may be quite different from the graphic representation of Post-modernism. Bronte’s use of storm and wind represented the hostile environment of Wuthering Heights; Carson’s wind rips away the skin from the bone leaving it exposed. The use of wind is quite different. Although each uses wind to represent turbulence and difficulty Carson’s representation is far more graphic than Bronte’s stormy scene. Munro’s work is less graphic depicting country charm. Her description of the girl walking with her mother to the grocery store portrays the mother’s unhappiness with her social standing “she wears a good dress…a summer hat of white straw, pushed down on the side of her head…she walks serenely like a lady…past the housewives in loose beltless dresses torn under the arms” (Munro, 2006, p. 2780).
Perspective Modern and post-modern works often use inner dialogue and stream-of-conscious narrative that was not evident in the works of the past. Bronte’s “Wuthering
Heights” is told from the perspectives of Lockwood and Nelly, who provides narration for other characters to tell their stories. Anne Carson’s “The Glass Essay” is written from her personal perspective with inner dialogue and reflection characteristic to modernism and post-modernism.
