In The Catcher in the Rye, the
following five literary devices are prevalent in Holden's narration. In sum, they
contribute to the humor and alienation in his voice and comment on the disillusionment
of his episodic misadventure in post-war America:
A.
Anaphora: (repetition at beginning of sentence) : “It
rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his
stomach.”
B. Metaphor: “Or
you’d just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in
them.”
C. Alliteration: “crazy
cannon”; “we can smoke till they start screaming at us.”
D.
Verbal Irony (sarcasm, understatement,
overstatement): "It’s really ironical, because I’m six foot two and a
half and I have gray hair.”
E.
Hyperbole: “The one side of my head—the right side—is full
of millions of gray hairs.”
P.S.
Actually, hyperbole is an example of verbal irony, as it
is overstatement, but I think it still counts...
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