Literary Devices

Literary Devices

The author does a great job of incorporating many literary devices and figurative language. These devices add to the excitement and entertainment of the story. 

ex: 

The description of Bilbo’s Took blood lets the readers know that Biblos' ancestors were also adventurous people, this is use of foreshadowing.  "That was, of course, absurd, but certainly there was still something not entirely hobbitlike about them, and once in a while members of the Took-clan would go and have adventures." (The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, pg 3)

Tolkien allows the readers to fully visualize what is being imagined by Bilbo when Thorin was speaking for what seemed like forever for Bilbo, by using a simile it was very obvious Bilbo was annoyed. "Poor Bilbo couldn't bear it any longer. At may never return he began to feel to feel a shriek coming up inside, and very soon it burst out like a whistle of an engine coming out of a tunnel. " (The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, pg 17) 

Tolkien takes the reader past a human experience when reading  by incorporating a dream of Bilbos in which  a spider was read to be tying him up, this is an example of anthropomorphism. "Then the great spider, who hadbeen busy tying him up while he dozed, came from behind him and came at him" (The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, pg 155)

Tolkien makes the story come to life my personifying a mountain and making the reader feel as if they were in fact in front of the mountain. "Its bank was bare and rocky, tall and steep above the stream' and gazing out from it over the narrow water, foaming and splashing among many boulders, they could see in the wide valley shadowed by the mountain's arms the grey ruins of ancient houses, towers, and walls. (The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, pg 204)